DnD is not a "male's game". I'm a woman that plays DnD in a group with more women than men. I've known plenty of women that play DnD. It would be ill-advised for WoTC and Larian to alienate roughly half the world's population from their product. Women play video games and table top games too. Saying that it is a "male's game" and that the game should be changed to suit some kind of male fantasy is dangeous. Actual statistics of men vs women who play video games do not support this dangerous assumption. Rather, the proportion of video gamers of either gender is growing closer to 50/50 over time. While this varies by franchise (I think
this reddit post is interesting), it's in the best interest of companies to include the significant proportion of the population (women) that consume their product. See these two articles:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/gaming-no-longer-a-mans-world-1408464249https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_and_video_games#Survey_dataIn the game, you don't choose your sexual orientation. You design a character to serve a narrative element in the story. Everything about the character is up to you and your roleplay. I don't know what gay and lesbian content you're talking about, unless it's advances from the companions. You don't have to engage in such content.
