Joystiq: "The fact that such a binary choice can't make it out from behind the industry's ultra-starched curtain of secrecy is baffling – and becomes gradually less so the more times you see it happen. Either Versus is canceled, meaning we can all move on and pray that someone else makes a game about a young, androgynous guy with magical swords, or it's still in development, which is important news for people hoping to purchase it somewhere down the line. There's always lag and confusion between different parts of a company, only one of which is allowed to speak with true authority, but checking a pulse should be more primal than this."
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And there absolutes as far as men and women are concerned because there are certain looks that simply can not be achieved by the other gender. Big bulging muscles and beards are things that women can't do and big breasts are things the men can't have.
I do agree that different cultures value different qualities. However, I find that people tend to overstate the differences in people. People are more alike than they are different.