what the fucking shit, Dragon Age?

I'm playing Dragon Age: Origins, which is a very pretty, gory, complex RPG, and I'm liking it quite a bit. But oh, the feminist rage. During character generation it says that men and women are equal in "most parts" of this fictional land. Maybe it's because I picked a dwarven noble background, but this is NOT equality. "Even women" were sometimes chosen to rule, and other annoying phrasings made me crazy. I was giving it a chance not to SUCK once I came to the surface, but now it's giving me the option to say, "I swear I'm the bravest one here, and I'm a woman." FUCK YOU, YOU REGRESSIVE BASTARD. We just met two badass women five seconds ago!

(I almost want to say it so I can check if the humans will be horrified. I guess I have a sexist and a racist option, the other bad one is "Are all humans such cowards?")

What really worries me is not that it's sexist; I'd have been expecting that bullshit if I hadn't been assured up front it wasn't so. It's the inaccuracy of the first statement. It's almost better if they were lying, but what if the game developers think this is what equality looks like? It fits horribly well with the idea (too widespread in tech) that there's no sexism problem any more. Yep! Everything's okay now! Derogatory stereotypes are perfectly fine and reasonable in an egalitarian society! ARGH.