Can the sexism in these types of games stop?

[Paddy™]

But in all honesty, who gives a damn what gender, race or religion the lead role portrays? In my opinion, it should be a male anyway if the game revolves around horror as we all know woman are more reluctant to be frightened and are weaker than men and these games are based on survival. Not sexism, fact - let the flamewar begin!

Hahaha well, if your knowledge of what women do in moments of terror consists entirely of what you've seen them do in movies from the 1950s, then yes, you're absolutely spot on!

5 minutes on World Star Hip Hop will rid any man of any semblance of superiority over women in terms of physical strength, courage, recklessness or a willingness to jab their elbow into another person's throat 6 or 7 times before an even scarier woman drags her off.

Question: what if during the next Tomb Raider we find out that Lara Croft is actually a male-to-female transgendered person? I mean, in terms of this debate about female protagonists? Will that count? Does it matter what physiology Lara was born with if she's actually female in every other way? Would "feminists" (note the quotes!) put a little tick next to her name on their list of female protagonists? What if she were still in her pre-op stage and had male genitalia? What if her peers still thought of her as a man and gave her the alleged privileges males tend to share with each other at the expense of women?

I think these things are a little more complicated than chromosome configuration, dontchoo?