Because there isn't any hyperbole in whining about a lack of female characters when a game has just launched, right? Oh wait... #eyeroll

By the way, the purple penguin thing isn't really true, it has (no surprise, really) been exaggerated by the media.

Yes, but it's still mostly true and it's still stupid.

But I can agree with you that our media on both political sides has gotten away from just reporting the news anymore, which is sad.

Because there isn't any hyperbole in whining about a lack of female characters when a game has just launched, right? Oh wait... #eyeroll

Well... no. Hyperbole is the exaggeration of something for emphasis. No-one is exaggerating the male/female distribution of characters as depicted on cards here. There are substantially more males than females depicted; that's objective fact.

And I don't regard anything in this thread as 'whining'. Calling it as such is simply an attempt to devalue the argument of your opposition without actually addressing the argument itself.

Yes, it's early in the game's development, and we don't yet know what we're going to see further down the line. That doesn't mean we shouldn't voice concern or opinion, or our hope to see a wider demographic represented.

Edit for spelling

Technically orks have no gender, so they're not male either.

You could argue that they're portraited as males but there is no evidence of that. Being muscled isn't a specific male trait and I don't think they have any body hair/beards/whatever either.

Technically orks have no gender, so they're not male either.

The vast majority of Orks refer to themselves as 'Boyz' though. And they are usually referred to as 'He' at least on the GW website. Honestly, this seems like splitting hairs.

If this makes no difference to you (as most people who are complaining in this thread claim) you can safely scroll past this thread. Rest assured, FFG isn't going to alter established canon, rather people are suggesting (and the best that will happen) that they bring some more diverse characters to the fore.

Kinda reminds me of a thread in the 40k roleplaying forums where people were complaining about stuff like "The Emperor of Man kind" or the use of the word "He" in the rulebook while referring to the general concept of characters or the "Imperium of man " etc.

Thank you to everyone who made the effort to calmly engage in collective conversation surrounding a topic that can be so divisive. I'm locking the thread simply as this complex issue won't be "solved" via discussion on an online forum. However, there are points of consideration in the above thread worth retaining.

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