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Message: <blockquote data-quote="olshanski" data-source="post: 5550007" data-attributes="member: 7441">I may have missed a post earlier, but you really need to be precise about your language here.Gender is a social construct... In modern USA, feminine being the gender that takes care of children, expresses feelings, does housework, watches chick-flicks.  The masculine gender watches sports, fixes machines, does yardwork, acts tough.Sex is biological.  Male sex has a penis and y chromosome. Female has a vagina and 2 x chromosomes.  This is not a social construct.You are probably asking whether sex differences (biological) should be reflected in stats, and I'd say "no".  I've never actually heard of a game that incorporates differences based on gender, and that would be interesting and I probably wouldn't object to it if it were handled well.{EDIT:  Never mind, I see my use of language is stuck in the 70s and 80s.  This distinction between sex/gender that I described above started in the 50s-70s... before the 50s, gender was only used for grammer.  Nowadays it is apparently OK for "Gender" and "sex" to be used interchangably--unless you are looking at literature specifically for feminists or sociologists or psycologists.  My apologies.I still stand by my statement that there should be no differences between sexes, but if you wanted to add a difference based on gender, it could be interesting.  Butch women and manly men would get a bonus to some stats and a penalty to others, while girly women and effeminate men would get a bonus and penalty to different stats.}</blockquote>

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