Gender-locking isn't sexist

[Alucard135]

Well, the reason for that is because now it directly affects the player, right?

And that is called hypocrisy from those screaming sexism. If something is wrong, it has to be said from the accuser whether it affects them or not.

Wanting to see myself reflected in the world I pay to inhabit isn't something that should be ignored or dismissed. And frankly, a playboy bunny does not reflect the general female population.

It would be ignored and dismissed if there's no significant demand on it from the playerbase. A single player's demand is not a reason to invest a huge amount of resources to satisfy. And the playboy bunny race you're talking about are the best example of that. They were thrown in based on players demand, not SE's.

Folks are going to great extents to defend SE's decision here and insist that there is absolutely no sexism whatsoever in the game or in this decision. It's kind of depressing. It means we really haven't made much progress.

Yes we support their decision, because they tried to satisfy as much as they could from the player base throwing in 2 male races would have been a mistake, and they knew based on players' feedback that they wanted female Viera. So they added them instead of female Hrothgar (business PoV).

And we should learn from JP community how they react to something if they didn't like. They're not over there throwing tantrums and screaming "sexism!" like we're doing here thinking we can bend the devs' arms to do something taxing instead of letting them focus on giving us better content.