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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Epic Meepo" data-source="post: 3897491" data-attributes="member: 57073">Be fair. My claim was that only five minis in the set appear female, and that is very provable. None of the other minis appear female at all. A creature with an indeterminate gender does not appear female. It doesn't appear male, either, but that is irrelevant to my claim.So, to be thorough, let's compare the two groups of minis whose gender is determinate:FEMALE:black woods dryaddriderdrow spider priestesseternal blademilitia archerI'm being generous and calling the dryad female, despite the fact that it is a plant, and its gender might thus be unrelated to human sex characteristics. And if you want to argue it, I'll even grant you that the halfling rogue and the snaketongue cultist might each be heavily cloaked females. And the teifling cleric might be a heavily-armored, short-haired female. So, giving the benefit of the doubt, we have at most 8 clearly female minis.MALE:blood of vol fanaticbruenor battlehammercliffwalk archercyclopsdrow blademasterdwarf brawlerdwarf maulfighterelf conjurorfarmerferal trollhalfling enchanterhuman cleric of bahamutmercenary generalmerchant guardogre bruteshadar-kai assassinshrieking harpyteifling rogueNothing can be said to convince me that any of the above minis is anything other than male, and in light of the minis' appearances, I don't think that's an unreasonable position to take. That gives us at least 18 clearly male minis.So I say again that there appears to be a gender bias in this set: at most 8 clearly female minis compared to at least 18 clearly male minis. More than twice as many obvious males.To say nothing of my earlier point about designers seeming to think that a female monster of human appearance cannot possibly be a convincing "fierce defender of the woodlands." To me, that is an even more convincing argument that an unintended gender bias might be afoot.</blockquote>

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