>>725169909
>It's why boys play with action figures and girls play with dolls; it's why boys dress like super heroes and girls as princesses.
Companies have done market research and what they essentially found is that little boys want to be Batman, while little girls want Batman to be them.
I mean you can look at lots of boys who will pretend they're like Godzilla or a T-Rex because they don't need the characters they're LARPing as to even be human.
Also game devs think women want to play as say, a fat women to feel "represented". But even when games like World of Warcraft put in fat female races, actual fat women still tend to gravitate to skinny conventionally attractive races like blood elves.