Um, wage gap -> really? You want to go there? .....Just...No.
Context -> this game- > issue not existing.
This game is made by people, who are (as us) products of the same society. So it is part of the context.
There has been plenty of research made about male and female representation, and how they harm business (don't believe me, look it up).
In his last blog post Swen wonders why there are so few women playing DOS, well that
might be part of the answer.
http://www.lar.net/2015/09/07/where-are-the-women/PS : if having studied the data is being a SJW, well I don't really care, it still harms business.
What's making you come close to being called an SJW is when you feel the need to crusade a topic concerning perceived social justice when others, myself included, are more than willing to just drop it as long as you frame your feedback without political motivations.
Yes, I'm familiar with Swen's post and I'm also familiar with the feedback he got with it. I could break out data and charts and factoids and so on; I am a moderately intelligent human being. And we *could* have that debate. I've done it often enough with friends. But you are neither my friend, or even an acquaintance, nor is this helping anything: Please just drop it. Say you want more armor models and that you think it'd draw more people to the game. I can agree with that. I can endorse that. Leave it at that.
@Hero4Rent
You bring up good points concerning modding and/or creating an option to help control how things look.
I wonder though how hard it'd be to mod in armor visuals? Wouldn't it be easier to add an option to turn off armor morphing?