Originally posted by I Love Cats:

You're saying that the female character needs to look more like what men want women to look like. These are vikings. Not a chick from a magazine.

Women sometimes want a specific look in a game, and the hirsute male-lookalike won't be every woman's cup of tea... or man's, come to that. :D One guy yesterday said his GF wanted a female character but chose male because the female character looked ugly to her.