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Message: <blockquote data-quote="S'mon" data-source="post: 2053342" data-attributes="member: 463">I disagree with your reasoning.  IRL we (western society) has a bias against female fighters, albeit weaker than previously.  IME (I knew a lot of female soldiers when I was in the army reserve) female fighters are stronger than average women,  and very frequently stronger than the average man, but they are not stronger than the average male fighter in a similar role.  Maybe they are 'better' overall than the men, but they're not stronger.  I agree that the stronger the bias the more exceptional (deviating from the norm) the individual will be.  There's a strong argument that in eg business sectors with strong anti-female gender bias the average (rare) female exec will be superior overall to the average male, though it's always unwise to assume someone's better just because they're female (poor Carly Fiorina).  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  - in fact if it's generally assumed eg that women are better (rather than worse) at a job, the ability imbalance may reverse.  So eg males working in female dominated professions may be better than average at their jobs.   I noticed when I was doing temping work like data-entry in Coventry (UK) that the Asian female line managers always seemed the smartest & most effective, I guessed that if they were white, male and had the same abilities they'd be of a higher rank.  Likewise IMC the female fighter guard-captain in a sexist area will tend to have a better overall stat array than the male guard-captain of the same rank, yup.</blockquote>

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