Girls in lfd

[Proficient]

why is it in both lfd games theres only one girl >:(

[Chaos Mana]

It sucks, but I'm not really that picky when it comes to choosing my character in this game. Though in other games I do not buy if no Female character!

[KoFiK]

Girls do not play so often

[MEOW]

There could be no girls. Stop being so mad over something as trivial as gender. It's like getting mad there is only one black guy, or no other ethnicities. Why no fat people, fat people can't survive an apocolypse? What about child survivors, don't be an ageist.

Where's my Native American Female to Male, why don't you care about equality Valve? It doesn't matter, it's a skin and some voices.

Though thanks to the steam workshop and the ability to change sound files, you could( or anyone that uploads it) can just make a 3d model of anyone and put their own dialogue in the game to replace one of the survivors. You are given a wide array of choices, if you want to change something you are given the oppertunitiy to do so.

[Spice Marine]

well i do my best to explain that but i may be wrong. ok the green flu makes humans into the infected. in the sacrifice comic the immunity to the virus is passed down by the father genes. suppose it was a recessive allele on the x chromosome that made the survivors immure to the flu. what i can understand the recessive allele is mostly found on males but in some cases it can be found in females like zoey and rochelle. i not sure so someone correct me if i wrong.

[G33smeagz]

haloreaches explaination sounds pretty legit

Originally posted by haloreach061:

well i do my best to explain that but i may be wrong. ok the green flu makes humans into the infected. in the sacrifice comic the immunity to the virus is passed down by the father genes. suppose it was a recessive allele on the x chromosome that made the survivors immure to the flu. what i can understand the recessive allele is mostly found on males but in some cases it can be found in females like zoey and rochelle. i not sure so someone correct me if i wrong.

[Psy]

Originally posted by haloreach061:

well i do my best to explain that but i may be wrong. ok the green flu makes humans into the infected. in the sacrifice comic the immunity to the virus is passed down by the father genes. suppose it was a recessive allele on the x chromosome that made the survivors immure to the flu. what i can understand the recessive allele is mostly found on males but in some cases it can be found in females like zoey and rochelle. i not sure so someone correct me if i wrong.

So far you're right. I also read that in the wikia too. But I think OP isn't asking about THAT explanation, what he/she (idk about his/her gender) is trying to ask is why Valve didn't put at least 2 girls.

[MunkeyThrust]

Who cares? as long the character shoots the zombies with equal effectiveness.

[Fat Boo Bear]

would you like 3 girls and 1 guy instead? lol reminds me of japanese harem anime

[blind3rdeye]

It's very common for games to be biased towards males. In fact it's so common that it's essentially standard. The protagonists in games are almost always male, and females in games are more often than not portrayed in a sexualized way (with a busty and fit figure, skimpy or tight fitting clothes, etc.)

Whenever someone brings up this disparity, segments of the male audience start ridiculing them as though the whole topic should be taboo.

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It isn't a big deal for any individual game to have a gender imbalance, but it is a big deal that almost every game has a gender imbalance and that this imbalance is vigorously defended by an embedded boys-club. The game industry is lagging behind the rest of the world in terms of gender equality; and players should not be discouraged from raising the issue once in awhile.

[Chaos Mana]

I'm never discouraged about it! I never give my money to something that doesn't give me the choice, or has the potetial to give choice if you raise the issues

[bob]

It's really pretty good to have 1 female character on the same level of importance as the guys, and on top of that they're both decent characters and not totally ♥♥♥♥♥♥, hte Left 4 Dead series certainly is a lot better than most games in that respect.

[Chaos Mana]

Originally posted by sophia hapgood:

It's really pretty good to have 1 female character on the same level of importance as the guys, and on top of that they're both decent characters and not totally ♥♥♥♥♥♥, hte Left 4 Dead series certainly is a lot better than most games in that respect.

I concur. Even if Rochelle is a bit of a Social hermit

[MEOW]

Originally posted by Sky Spider Girl:

I concur. Even if Rochelle is a bit of a Social hermit

"As a low-level associate producer for a big-name news station ,Rochelle's job mostly consisted of lugging cables and fetching cofee. But when the outbreak hit and staff started callin in sick, Rochelle got her break: producing a segment from Savannah about the evacuation center located there. She was still setting up the cameras when her big story became a war zone. But sh's not letting go of her dream job. Surviving a zombie apocalypse is just something else she can use her wits and drive to prodcuce the hell out of."

She's a strong confident woman looking to survive to make her dreams come true. She cares about the others she met and she knows that with the power of teamwork that they can help each other out to survive. She's not a social hermit, she holds her own, and is sincere as ♥♥♥♥. What more do you want from Valve?

[dHeX ⛤]

In The Sacrifice, it is explained that the immunity is passed down through the father's genes. The most common theory to explain this is that the gene that makes people "resistant" is a recessive allele on the X chromosome. In Zoey's case, as well as Rochelle's and any other female survivor's, she must have gotten an X chromosome with the recessive gene from both her mother and her father. Zoey's mother was not resistant, meaning that she only had one X chromosome with the gene (the dominant gene on her other X chromosome would have overridden the recessive one). As explained, her father was resistant, making his death an avoidable tragedy. This would also explain why there are more male than female survivors, as a male survivor would only need one copy of the "resistant" gene found on his X chromosome (his Y chromosome would neither have nor need this), while any female would need two copies―one on each X chromosome. In fact, the number of immune males would be the square of the number of immune females, as per basic Punnett squares. If the sex-makeup of the two survivor groups is representative, then we would expect one in three males, and one in nine females in the pre-outbreak population to be immune to the infection―a net 22% (approx. 1.54 billion) of the population (this is only true if the immune gene occurs as much as the dominant gene without immunity. It appears that the majority of the population do not have immunity, so it can be assumed that this gene is also a rare mutation that most people do not have).

[SheyQueen ♠]

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