Gender and Character Traits (m)

[Zander]

Less physically resistant in various ways that would translate to a lower Constitution in D&D.

Not really. Men are larger on average and can therefore sustain more physical damage before being overcome. Also, men have higher stamina on average.

 

[diaglo]

Feats don't fail me now.

 

[diaglo]

Also, men have higher stamina on average.

Oh baby, ooo baby, oo baby... yeah i faked it too.

 

[Tinner]

Other = None of these are exclusively masculine.
Kind of an odd list IMO.

 

[ARandomGod]

I voted 'other'. Perhaps because I think that the system is based on males, in such a way that the system itself is steryotypical of men as opposed to women. Whereas I *did* vote on something for women, once again likely because I think that the system as written has a masculine bias.

Men are stronger (higher STR) and more physically resilient (higher CON) on average. D&D uses a 3-18 scale which is probably high enough granularity to differentiate men from women on these two metrics, especially strength.

I think that technically speaking women have a higher Con score. Men admittedly have a higher strength. That one's easy. And it's easy to get the two mixed up. But more muscle's doesn't mean more healthy... and females are definitly built to be more resilient than men.

 

[ARandomGod]

Women do have better balance than men on average but men have superior hand-eye coordination and aim, so the net effect on DEX is no difference IMO.

Umm.. yea... actually military research has shown that in general women have better hand-eye coordination and aim. They're much more deadly with guns.

 

[Zander]

I think that technically speaking women have a higher Con score. Men admittedly have a higher strength. That one's easy. And it's easy to get the two mixed up. But more muscle's doesn't mean more healthy... and females are definitly built to be more resilient than men.

CON affects hit points which represent, at least in part and especially at low levels, how much damage a person can take. A larger person can, on average, take more damage than a smaller one. That's the primary reason why children are more likely to die from gunshot wounds than adults - kids are smaller so the effect is proportionally larger. If you have an adult and a child of equal size (actually, mass), the likelihood of them surviving a similar wound is pretty much the same.
As for stamina, one of the other components of CON, men on average have better stamina than women.
With regards to resistance to disease (not congenital conditions), there isn't much difference between the sexes - certainly not enough to be measured on a 3-18 scale.
Women are better at resisting cold. It's possible that this differences is great enough to warrant an effect on CON but when offset against greater trauma resistance and stamina in men, it probably still comes to an advantage for men.

 

[Zander]

Umm.. yea... actually military research has shown that in general women have better hand-eye coordination and aim. They're much more deadly with guns.

I admit that it's been a long time since I studied psychology, but all the data until about 12 years ago had pretty much shown that men have better aim than women, and are better at tasks involving space-time judgements combined with coordination (e.g. flying a plane {simulator}, driving a car and so on). I doubt that people have changed that much in the last few years.

 

[S'mon]

I voted 'other'. Perhaps because I think that the system is based on males, in such a way that the system itself is steryotypical of men as opposed to women.

Yup, I agree entirely. This is why IMO any argument over "statting gender" can never be resolved, because the system itself was developed with the 18-year-old human male adventurer as the base.