Also, if you actually want to go down that route, gamer004: it's a stupid, stupid massive fucking minefield of totally insane proportions, and it really has absolutely nothing to do with whether or not Kingdoms of thingy has chicks with excessively massive tits and/or excessive boobarmour. (though for the record, my opinion is: they don't)
Also, if you'd actually read what I wrote, I DID mention the possible sexist attitudes inherent in the "female delfs = assassins, male delfs = warriors" example. I FUCKING MADE A FOOTNOTE SPECIFICALLY FOR THAT.
BUT
I thought that since it was such a stupid, stupid massive fucking minefield of totally insane proportions, people would be happy that I acknowledged it, and then be similiarly happy to gloss over the fact that there is inherent sexism in games (and in fact, in EVERYTHING, EVER) on so many levels, and simply consider my point about exaggerated characteristics (be they size, colour, gender-specific morphologies or whatever) being useful for distinguishing NPCs in games, and that this is probably a factor worthy of noting.
Still, if you really want to go down that route, you're going to have to go back a LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG way, and address what will ultimately end up being a silly, silly position to take.
Why can't we have male witch elves?
Why can't we have male witches?
Why can't we have female spacemarines?
Why can't Gordon Freeman be a chick?
Why can't Joanna Dark be a dude?
Why is it pacman and ms pacman, rather than pacman and pacwoman?
Why are almost all welders men?
Why do women get to have TWO X chromosomes? Surely that's greedy?
Why do men get a Y all to themselves? Ditto: greedy.
THIS WILL NOT STAND!!!!11!!2
The fact is, there is a lot of gender-based specificity in basically everything, ever, and whether or not this counts as 'sexist' is based entirely on the reasoning behind it, rather than the segregation itself.
AND, we're dealing with fucking fantasy RPGs, ffffffs.
So if you're going to argue that male dark elves are perfectly capable of being assassins, then what if I said in this fictional game universe "dark elf assassins use magical blades that kill any man who attempts to weild them"? Job done, we now have a totally internally consistent reason for why all dark elf assassins are female. BAM. Is this sexist? No. It follows the exact same reasoning behind the fact that virtually all sufferers of red green colourblindness are male. Is X-linkage sexist discrimination? No. Sexual discrimination, yes (that's the point, after all) but not
sexist.
Having a cadre of elite female assassins is not sexist. Hell, even having them built like supermodels is not necessarily sexist, but having them wear leather bikinis, thighboots and pushup bras as armour, without a damn good reason as to why (other than: OMG HAWT), IS sexist....probably.
But anyway, this argument has gone on far too long, and become far too ill defined and stupid, and even I'm running out of angry DDL vitriol by this point...