I do something in many of my campaigns after finding that there is a fairly high population of players looking for a highly specific power fantasy. I found this out after GMing for public groups at a LFGs. Many women, and some others, want to make female characters fighting against an oppressively male dominated society. They want to pull the limelight from other players and make it about their own empowerment story.


I, generally, decide to cut this off before it can start by making most of the setting’s societies egalitarian. Female mages filling up ranking position. Highly respected female soothsayers & medicine women being consulted in more primitive societies. Queens who found their way to the throne and now rule over their kingdoms. I do it enough to have it be common while not being ubiquitous.


This often seems to take the wind from their sails when they realize their empowerment story has already been stolen from them by empowered women, and they can’t say anything to me about it because I’ve been an egalitarian world.


I even put female martials, and base them off of historical figures like Cynane and Julie d’Aubigny


Truly it is a good feeling to watch a SJW get buttflustered that their power fantasy has been cut short.