People overthink equal representation of genders in video games. "Add more of this" or "less of that" or "don't make the woman do this".

Really, the only place we need to get to is being able to see a female character as a blank canvas. Right now, if if you're creating a character from scratch and the first thing you decide is it's male... It's still a blank slate to be any kind of character with any kind of story or motive or personality.

Right now, if you first decide it's a female... There's probably a reason. You've made no decisions about your character except ithat it's female and it already has a footnote of implications.

Imo that's how we ultimately fix this inequality issue in games... And I think the best way to tackle that is not to start adding MORE footnotes to genders (albeit positive ones) but to strip them away. Just make characters that happen to be male or female.