I strongly support women available in ARMA soon.
About 15% of enlists in the US Army are women. Even 15% of admirals, generals and 15% of all officers are women too. As of 2013 women are allowed in direct combat roles. As of right now women are planned to be integrated into all combat units including the Air Force, Army, Navy, Marines, Special Forces, Army Rangers and Navy SEALs by year 2016.
About 60% of the community want our women. 70% want soldier women or civilian women with fighting capabilities. And 97% of the community want women in any shape. Now that’s 97 percent.
Creating women assets would be some work but as some have already said it will have to be done anyways! Why? Because 97% of the ARMA community wants to see women in any shape so skeletons and animations will have to be made and even 70% of the community which is a vast majority want to see fighting women so then those animations will have to be made as well! By then the extra modelling to make women soldiers would be really very small.
And there are no other sane, sensible arguments against it. Only misogynic bullshit and tons of crazy misinformation.
Not to mention 50% of humanity are women. A good portion of ARMA-players will be women.
And don’t argue that it’s not about who you play because character customization is currently extremely big in all of video gaming and women do love playing as women as much as men love playing as men. I rarely play women in games unless I really need to.
It would also be a lot easier for BIS to implement the women vanilla instead of having modders do it. And a lot of us want women for our editor scenarios which will depict all sorts of crazy situations imaginable.
Adding women to ARMA would also showcase the series to the entire world as one of the only wargames to include women and most certainly set it above Battlefield and Call of Duty.
Adding women is the only right thing to do really. Nearly everyone wants it, it will mostly have to be done anyways, it will welcome women, it would be great publicity and there are no single arguments against it and wouldn’t damage the experience of anyone who has downvoted it.
Some sources:
Pentagon through CNN:
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