Dahlia D

There's just no way to get a realistic range of bodies with one slider.  Maybe they figured that the "heroic fantasy" pastiche made more sense with a narrower range of bodies for both men and women, with the men running from "muscular" to "bodybuilder" and the women from "clothes model" to "pinup," maybe they just didn't prioritize body variation on the theory that body type will be less visible under clothes/armor anyway.   Still, it's a bit irritating.  I wanted to play a thin, wiry male wizard/thief on my first runthrough, and a burly, grizzled old Orsimer warrior woman on my second; neither had an in-game body that made sense for my idea of the character.   That said... Thanks for that link.  That actually solves one of my two character-body-type issues...now to find a muscular, non-nuclear-titted female body model.

I'm male/genderqueer (publicly male, psychologically in-between but fairly apathetic about it), mostly attracted to men and genderqueer people.   Came for mods, looked around and said "hey, look, OT forum!" and here I am.   On the number of genders/gender identities, though -- gender is social.  As far as I know all cultures have gender, but they disagree about the number (usually between two and five, sometimes up to seven) and what combination of traits qualifies people for which gender (anatomy? body shape? psychology? social role? religious powers? some combination of the above? they're all relevant somewhere in the world).  Once we start opening up the options to make sure there are identities that more people can fit into...then more people can fit in.  Works for me.