Can the sexism in these types of games stop?

[Kman]

i'm fully aware that there's a lot more male characters in videogames than female ones and i'm also aware that realistically the amount of male to female gamers is pretty much equal but with that said i don't get how people are somehow less capable of getting into a game just cause of your characters gender

like with portal i wasn't thinking "ugh i would totally be doing all this different if i was a guy" no i was thinking "these puzzles are fucking complex holy shit how do i solve this". i dunno where so many people get this idea that when you're playing a game your gender or whatever other characteristic your character has is constantly driven into you and reminding you of it, because really i'd say like 95% of the time all that stuff kind of blends into the background after the first few minutes