Good reply Snicker. The idea of a pre-release or alpha, makes a lot of sense. Especially if you are in alpha with a free test group finding bugs or testing the gameplay. However, releasing it on steam and having what, a million people purchase the game, changes things. Whether it annoys people or not, once you sell your product, the people who purchase it will then have an opinion. I paid for the game understanding what state the game was in, but I'd also like to see female characters. What may seem totally irrelevant to 99.9% of the people playing because they are male, I am the .1% that thinks something that basic should be in alpha as well. If it was the other way around, trust me, it would have been added long ago. There are different types of guns, which is unnecessary. Different types of food, which is unnecessary. Your example mentions just chicken meat, but doesn't mention there are candy bars, tuna, cans of beans, and a variety of other type of food. It is basic, but they add variety to make the game more enjoyable, even in it's current state. Using your logic, make 1 melee, 1 long range, 1 type of food, one animal, one loot box style, one set of clothing (the look, regardless of what it's named), and no variety in terrain. They added a few things to make the game presentable to the public, to make it enjoyable even in it's pre-release state. And if you disagree that having female players actually be able to be female doesn't make it more or less enjoyable to you, then we'll have to just disagree. My thread is very light-hearted and I understand why it's not. However, females do enjoy the game too. I have over 100 hours logged and this is the first PC game I have "really" played. The survival genre isn't just a guy thing (Sims), even though they are adding M4s and various guns, ladies enjoy gathering resources and building forts. I'll admit, I do not like the weapons and pvp aspect yet. Which again explains why there are so many weapon types, as they are catering (yes, even in pre-release) to a certain type of player (men). And I'm okay with that.
I'll just have a penis.
However, I'd still like a vagina.
Female player models have been confirmed to be on dev's to-do list, it will be implemented don't worry about it.
Also no one said anything about you not being able to express your opinion, and i don't think anyone's gonna invalidate your opinion because you're a woman on the internet, at least not here they won't, anyway, there have been threads about this before, it will be added when it's done/when they feel like they can focus more on things that arent balancing the game or ironing out bugs or optimization.
Keep in mind it is a small dev team.