because there's a skew of female/male chars in general. not to mention, it's about character type. you can't make numbers up out of nothing. if you app in fifty characters, ten of them being women and four of those women fitting shade attributes, that doesn't mean shade is a more feminine choice. it just means there were more female chars with shade attributes than female chars with any other ones. i don't see why this is so difficult to understand. i mean, sure, if you app in, say, an entire female cast of similar char types, it's likely most of them will wind up in the same group. because of char types, not because of gender.