' Wrote:In RL, guys are nice to girls usually.

' Wrote:Which is a result of our nature. Men were meant to provide protection, shelter, etc. Women are to provide heirs and sex. So our nature compels us to be protective of women. Furthermore, most (unfortunately not all) people grow up being taught to respect women and be courteous. This is a result of the 'chivalric' era. This is why men are supposed to hold doors open for women, seat them, etc.

But of course, the biggest factor is that this is a community of nerds..

' Wrote:I disagree.
'Tis all an elaborate ploy to get into womens pants.

' Wrote:Like he said. Evolution.

Natural selection favors those who can have more surviving descendants.

' Wrote:nobody's nice to Aki, but maybe it's because she flies a really big ship with a lot of guns.

' Wrote:'Tis all an elaborate ploy to get into womens pants.

' Wrote:Men were meant to provide protection, shelter, etc. Women are to provide heirs and sex.

' Wrote:People are nice to Tiana, but that might be because she's been expanding her knife collection and occasionally mentions various torturous experiments performed on prisoners, among other things. She's a sweet girl.

But then, that's in-character. I've never gotten any special out-of-character attention on my female characters. Most of them have flown under callsigns and ship names rather than their own name. This is coincidental, since they tend to be in lines of work where a certain degree of anonymity (or heavy firepower in the case of ship names) is useful, but it's also useful.