Female Hrothgar as a playable race. Show your support!

[Halivel]

That sort of thing can often be a trap. Why condemn bad behavior when you can show correct behavior? There's the risk of people not getting the criticism, also, isn't Fight Club a criticism but people hail it as an anthem instead?
Also, while every race and community will have rotten apples, they were always shown to be, not the exception, but certainly like you said, not how you were supposed to behave, and not something "normal society" condones.
But we're talking about race here, whose males at least will be playable. And this game establishes that everything has rotten apples, and bad history, and bad blood. Even if they say that Hrothgar "aren't like that", will it really be believable?

Well, there surely will be rotten apples in Hrothgars population as well. Not having them at all will be just boring storywise. My point is that, if females are considered as baby makers (which doesn't really sound like this according to those drops of info that we have for now), it can be shown in negative way in story, where females try to protect themselves from this kind of life, hiding their female kids from male population. I'm not sure that Team even thought about this part when they wrote lore though. Or maybe they did, who knows.

[BillyKaplan]

I'm not sure that Team even thought about this part when they wrote lore though.

They probably didn't. "They're just that rare" has been their go-to justification for several gender locked races so far, they probably didn't see why it wouldn't work this time too.

And even if they thought about it, showing the negative implications and condemning it, they still condemned an entire race-gender - one which people want to play, mind - to such a horrible scenario.