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I was getting annoyed at how many female enemies there are in RimWorld and found out about a mod called Sex Matters (has a very funny comment section, check it out). Aside from allowing you to customize the enemy gender ratio, it makes several other changes:

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Which seemed really great to me. Wish I knew about this mod a lot sooner. Only problem is that it's a little out of date, but I found a Redux version that gets in running on the latest patch. And then I read the description...
Revised Sex Differences Stats

In the sections below, I detail the key modifications implemented in Sex Matters Redux concerning sex-based stats differences. Note that many stats from the original Sex Matters mod have been retained in their original form and are therefore not listed here to maintain a focus on the new changes.

Adjustments to Female Pawns

-Standardized surgery success and operation speed: Removed previous sex-based modifiers, aligning female capabilities with males.
-Construction and repair efficiency normalized: Eliminated negative success rate modifiers, equating female efficiency with male counterparts.
-Equalized mining yield: The 75% mining yield modifier for females has been removed, ensuring sex parity in resource gathering.
-Harmonized skill learning rates: Female pawns now have equal learning rates for Melee, Shooting, Mining, and Construction as males, removing the previous disparities.
-Adjusted suppressability (CE): Reduced from 200% to 125%.
-Aligned aiming accuracy: Removed the female-specific modifier, unifying shooting capabilities across sexes.
-Mental break threshold normalized: Reverted to vanilla levels.
-Increased Melee crit chance, parry chance and dodge change from 50% to 85

Adjustments to Male Pawns

-Elevated Mental Break Susceptibility: The threshold of male pawns for experiencing a mental break has been increased by 5%. This adjustment not only introduces a new layer of complexity and challenge but also aims to reflect a more nuanced portrayal of emotional responses in reality. The rationale behind this change is grounded in the observation that, generally, males exhibit less control over anger and quicker tendencies towards agitation and violence.
Nice try, you son of a gun. Luckily there's a different 1.5 patch that doesn't make any changes.
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What's the point of taking a mod and just undoing it??
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They even take and corrupt our mods
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This is a new level of evil - corrupting the anty-woke modes so even if you install one, you get the opposite result! Guess, pay attention to where you download your mods from.
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Apparently the latest version of this mod seems to be from 2023, so it's possible that the mod creator may not even frequent online sites anymore.

Shame, perhaps we could have invited him to our site here.
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UltraFan123 wrote: February 14th, 2025, 18:27
Apparently the latest version of this mod seems to be from 2023, so it's possible that the mod creator may not even frequent online sites anymore.

Shame, perhaps we could have invited him to our site here.
He's probably dead by now
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Morrowind starting attributes, although they feel kind of arbitrary and random. Only 3 races have females with lower strength.

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Grimoire. Females have lower strength but higher charm or something like that. No real reason to pick a woman adventurer, as it should be. :smug:
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Even people that accept men & women are different greatly underestimate just how much.
Always surprised at how few people are aware shooting competitions are gender segregated.
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Some Fire Emblem classes are sex-locked. Barbarian/Berserker classes for men, Flying Riders for women. I always liked that.
More recent entries have removed some of these restrictions :|
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From the FATAL rulebook:

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In Darklands females get -3 strength, +2 endurance and +1 charisma.
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Unfortunately 2 or 3 points out of a maximum of 40 make no actual difference and your female character can still be a soldier, a professor, or a master craftsman, even though the game otherwise strives for a historical feel.
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Having a majority of female pawns will ensure an even bigger mood buff
Yeah, right!
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ArcaneLurker wrote: February 14th, 2025, 19:45
Having a majority of female pawns will ensure an even bigger mood buff
Yeah, right!
Men in relationships, as well as the following traits are immune to the moodlets: Gay, Asexual, Psychopath, Ascetic, Misogynist
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Some Asian MMOs have genderlocked classes, like only men being able to be tanky frontliners while women are fragile backline casters.
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Alien Shooter has sexual dimorphism between the two playable characters.

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The woman has less health and strength than the male, but has more speed and accuracy.
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Brugmans wrote: February 14th, 2025, 19:41
In Darklands females get -3 strength, +2 endurance and +1 charisma.
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Unfortunately 2 or 3 points out of a maximum of 40 make no actual difference and your female character can still be a soldier, a professor, or a master craftsman, even though the game otherwise strives for a historical feel.
Darklands at least gets away with it for being so old and trying to do so much at the time, some career tracts or promotions are still forbidden to women. Having at least one womyn in the party is helpful because some saints are feminists.
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KotC 2 has differing stats between sex, but Pierre capitulated to whiners and gave an option to swap stat caps, I think this disables achievements though.
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DagothGeas5 wrote: February 14th, 2025, 19:55
Alien Shooter has sexual dimorphism between the two playable characters.

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The woman has less health and strength than the male, but has more speed and accuracy.
Except women aren't more accurate or faster than men. I think this is less an example of sexual dimorphism and more an example of just having two characters with different stats.
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Tweed wrote: February 14th, 2025, 19:56
Darklands at least gets away with it for being so old and trying to do so much at the time, some career tracts or promotions are still forbidden to women. Having at least one womyn in the party is helpful because some saints are feminists.
Honestly in a game about historical feeling and accuracy there was no need to add female playable characters at all. The developers, being libtards, first decided they needed women in the game and then accomodated reality around them, with such mental gymnastics as "what if you want to roleplay as one of the innumerable crossdressing adventurers of 15th century Germany?"
They just did the bare minimum to escape the absurdity of women being exactly the same as men stat-wise, or entering the priesthood. It's just that the left-wing retardation of the 90's seems reasonable and balanced compared to today's lunacy.
I still like the game but it is what it is.
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OnTilt wrote: February 14th, 2025, 20:07
DagothGeas5 wrote: February 14th, 2025, 19:55
Alien Shooter has sexual dimorphism between the two playable characters.

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The woman has less health and strength than the male, but has more speed and accuracy.
Except women aren't more accurate or faster than men. I think this is less an example of sexual dimorphism and more an example of just having two characters with different stats.
I was looking at the strenght and HP value more, but I see what you mean :heart:
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For me, its got to be: You do realise a majority of neolithic hunters were women? right? please tell me you did any research on this topic
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A Chinese opium den wrote: February 14th, 2025, 21:53
For me, its got to be: You do realise a majority of neolithic hunters were women? right? please tell me you did any research on this topic
it's true, I looked it up
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rusty_shackleford wrote: February 14th, 2025, 18:59
Always surprised at how few people are aware shooting competitions are gender segregated.
Chess competitions too. I wonder why?
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rusty_shackleford wrote: February 14th, 2025, 18:59
Even people that accept men & women are different greatly underestimate just how much.
Always surprised at how few people are aware shooting competitions are gender segregated.
There is a reason for that: shooting events at the Olympics were mixed-gender until 1992. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the Chinese shotgun shooter Zhang Shan (a woman) won the gold medal in the mixed-sex skeet shooting event.
No idea why it stopped.
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PixiGreen wrote: February 14th, 2025, 23:35
rusty_shackleford wrote: February 14th, 2025, 18:59
Even people that accept men & women are different greatly underestimate just how much.
Always surprised at how few people are aware shooting competitions are gender segregated.
There is a reason for that: shooting events at the Olympics were mixed-gender until 1992. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics, the Chinese shotgun shooter Zhang Shan (a woman) won the gold medal in the mixed-sex skeet shooting event.
No idea why it stopped.
She was, afaik, the second woman to win a medal in any shooting event held at the olympics, the first one was almost 20 years prior when Margaret Murdock won her silver medal. In the 2024 event, it's likely only one or none of the women would have qualified for the finals if they were still mixed.
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Call this chuddism but why should women get a bonus to pretty much anything of note in videogames, other than for balance.

Realistically speaking women lose on strength, endurance, dexterity, intelligence, charisma, pretty much any videogame stat. Might have a minor advantage in pain resistance. So mods like the one in OP are still just wishful simping.
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jcd wrote: February 15th, 2025, 00:11
Call this chuddism but why should women get a bonus to pretty much anything of note in videogames, other than for balance.

Realistically speaking women lose on strength, endurance, dexterity, intelligence, charisma, pretty much any videogame stat. Might have a minor advantage in pain resistance. So mods like the one in OP are still just wishful simping.
Not even that. This was always a falsehood. There was some research done a while back that showed this to be completely invalid. It was some kind of pain test they do with a tool that puts pressure on a certain vertebrae which safely measured pain level tolerance. Men were shown to be much more tolerant to pain.
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jcd wrote: February 15th, 2025, 00:11
Call this chuddism but why should women get a bonus to pretty much anything of note in videogames, other than for balance.

Realistically speaking women lose on strength, endurance, dexterity, intelligence, charisma, pretty much any videogame stat. Might have a minor advantage in pain resistance. So mods like the one in OP are still just wishful simping.
I like the idea that having a woman around improves the morale of men. I'm not sure if I agree to it in general, but pairbonded men are going to overall be happier.
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I find it ironic that women have created their own feminist version of 'simp'(pickme) for women that exhibit desirable behavior. Crabs in a bucket mentality.
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