Quote Originally Posted by Souljacker View Post
Okay, but the reality is that this is a game that has a (presumably) cis, straight white male as the lead character (Warrior of light). The majority of guild leadership is male, and even when it isn't, the storyline usually involves the male who is supposed to be in charge but isn't for whatever reason...<clipped>

We're talking about a game that has a whole lot of sexism and enforced gender-roles in general that is maybe completely invisible to some of you....<clipped>

This problem is bigger than just this one thing.
Where to start...the WoL/D is YOUR character. The dude in the trailers is a placeholder for your character. They only had 2 choices for said placeholder, so if you're offended they went with "male," I don't know what to tell you.

That said, are we going to forget the fact that all 3 heads of state of the big 3 city-states are female, the leader of the scions is female for a majority of the story, and Hydaelyn, the embodiment of the Light, is identified as female? I guess we should also forget there is a storyline where you help overthrow a jerk arrogant dude and place a humble, wise woman in his place. His main rival and leader of the other clan was also female. To boot, said jerk hits on a main female protagonist and is rejected in a most humiliating and hilarious fashion.

Respectfully, I think some people are combing through the game in search of offense. Confirmation bias is real.