Just as a point, Unreal Tournament had, has, and always will have from now until the end of the gaming series female characters. In fact half the time I enter a random match, I am one.
But that's not the point I wanted to make, though I'm going to use the same game and apply it to many at once. A good quarter of the cast is female, another quarter male, and the rest are robots or aliens, but when you're actually PLAYING the game, do you actually look to see if it has boobs before you put two in the head? If you said yes to this question, I want to play with you. I could use the easy frags. Point being, when you're playing, you're likely not looking at what you're shooting. If it's trying to kill you, you kill it first male, female, or six foot tall hermaphrodite with a flock of seagulls haircut and only one nostril(Thank you, Weird Al, I can die happy now). Gender is, in the end, utterly asthetic in games. It's like turning down the fountail of youth just because the fountain was made of the wrong stone and you don't like the color: Trivial. You can try to point out sexism games, and in todays world you might even get somewhere, win a lawsuit, rake in money, but at this point you're missing the purpose of the games, to just have fun. Instead of complaining that there are no female characters around, instead why not try to find the good in it, maybe, I'm surrounded by a group of guys that could bench a Volvo running around without a shirt on? Not really my bag, but just sayin'.
