[Domi_Ash]

I don't see it as a dilemma at all. I want the game to be non-genderless, ie I want to definetly play as a female, which corresponds to my gender in RL.

However, I do not want the gender differences to be accounted for by the mechanical means, ie I don't think the game should bully you into having parrticular statst and, consequently bullying every female into playing a wizard or a healer, and every male - into a fighter.

What I want to is dialogue differences, ie both romantic and non-romantic choices and situations targeting different genders. For example, I just came accross a hilareous dialogue in the MotB with a mad bard that tried to persuade me that I am a male. That was good. More of this kind of things will be even better.

But if they don't have money/resources to do it, I will take a completely gender-neutral game (ie BG1) over a one-gender game any day. And of course, I will not touch a male-only game with a 10 foot pole.

My problem with the 'realistic' and 'historically accurate' is that it always will be a female protagonist that will be discriminated against, and I am not interested in RP'ing the Outstanding Heroine that flies in the face of the conventions but can't cook every time. Most times I don't want to deal with 'proving that women are humans' at all. Instead I want to enjoy being one in a fantasy setting.