In Destiny playing as a Female Character should give you more of a edge then just hitboxes
You should be able to attract other male characters in to pacify them and have to ability to mate to continue the survival of humanity. This would give the player more loot if they did this and only commies don't like loot. My idea would make more players play as females ,would promote Female equality and i think feminists would buy Destiny more as it shows Bungie supports them
So thoughts Guardians?
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Adding "seductive" traits to female characters to counter male stat bonuses is very trite and actually, while with good intent, is immersion breaking. Realistically speaking, it just seems like a cop-out to give the opposite gender a distinct quality; much like hitboxes, stat bonuses and detriments. An excuse to change genders. While bland, truly having full equality between the genders would be the best route Bungie could go; making these options [b]aesthetic[/b] and only aesthetic. There is no reason why roleplay options should be classified to certain genders, and while stats and hitboxes often get a slide in other games because of the average female anatomy I still feel that the only gameplay-wise choices that people would have to go through in character production is classes and focuses (And races of Bungies decides to turn tail). There's no reason why there cant be a tough barfiend female warlock, and why there cant be seductive gigolo hunter. There's no equality there. Also, in terms of "videogame" feminism this is probably the worst way to go about it. I don't want to make it one of "those" threads but I'm pretty sure there are a few people who are familiar on the topic: Anita, Feminist Frequency, etc. Having female characters buy into tropes fits into one of the many categories of "sexism" because it's objectifying women into cliches and gender roles. In any case I really do think roleplay traits are interesting, just not as gender traits. No doubt there is somebody going to pop up in the thread to make fun of everyone in here for replying to a potential troll thread, but this actually is a pretty interesting topic.