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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 5518347" data-attributes="member: 177">As others have suggested - ask the player what kind of things the hero is going to try to do.  What the player thinks counts as feminism and defending women's rights matters a whole lot more than our opinions on the matter.If some of the major corporations in game (Roxxon is a standard Marvel bad-guy corp) have sexual discrimination or harassment issues, the hero can try to bring down the corp.Others have suggested dealing with the slave trade, which isn't too bad an idea.  Also note that modern prostitution may fall short of outright slavery, but still be a good target for the character.There are, of course, still any number of women victimized by the men in their lives - there are ugly fathers, boyfriends, and husbands all over the place, but taking on normal humans is not usually a superpowered hero's job.  If you are not stuck too solidly to the modern day, you can place your game in a different time, either past or future, in which women are in a much different situation: a variant on the now classic Marvel "<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Future_Past" target="_blank">Days of Future Past</a>"</blockquote>