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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Fred Delles" data-source="post: 427136" data-attributes="member: 3497">All things equal, women are stronger than men in diversity in class and both role-playing and combat purposes.But, in practice, all things are NOT equal.In role-playing, the social stigmata (both in-game and real-life) of playing a female character, no matter what RL gender plays it, is quite powerful. Everyone always thinks "men can do anything, women must be wizard or healer, never warrior", and even today, how many good female warriors are there? Any besides the one or two NPCs and perhaps a deviant PC? The professions are the same. Your average army barracks are probably 90-100% male, and many professions in the RP worlds (perhaps except for wizardry) are also male-dominated. This de facto exclusiveness forces women to take a different path.Now that many of us are older and wiser, many have gotten over it, but there are those immature teens/pre-teens that play and fire sexist ideology, both verbally ("You're a pansy" "You're a girl. Beat it!") and subliminially (women are always housewives and wenches in every town), so the sexism continues.Certain character combinations exist for males, but almost NEVER for females except for gimmicks. Rules allow it, but that above stigmata prevents it. I mean, how many female elven barbarians with 18 STR and 18 CON do we have? I played a female Kagonesti barbarian in Dragonlance (I'm male) and had a blast. But that's more for deviation and cheap fantasizing (she's a mithril-armored chick, but still one hot chick).To balance, WotC had to create female-only PrCs and certain feats. Rather than break the glass ceiling, Wizards circumvented it.</blockquote>

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