Editing Female Space Marines (section)

=Why do some people still want them?=   

Let's ignore the [[Promotions|most obvious one]] and it's allusions to autogynophilia for a moment (and next most obvious one, of idpol insertion by people with a condescending savior fetish, claiming to speak on behalf of audiences that aren't actually interested in the setting. Also ignore that 80 percent of this next section is written from that perspective.) and ask ourselves: why do some people still insist that Femmarines need to be present in a canon manner and as explicitly possible? Why are [[Sisters of Battle]] not enough? Why does [[your dudes]] not cut it? Well, if you want to have an army of women, here are the problems:    
* '''Overall importance in lore''': Beyond the God-Emperor, the Custodes and the Primarchs (all explicitly men), Space Marines (also all men) are the most important organisation in the Imperium. They're the Angels of Death, they're the biggest and meanest baddasses of the Imperium, they get constant attention from Chaos, they are intrinsically linked to the founding of the Imperium, to the Horus Heresy, to the Black Crusades, all the important battles are fought with/about them... All in a way that Sisters are not. No matter how important your Sisters are, they are ultimately subversient to the Ecclesiarchy and the Imperium in a way that Space Marines aren't. So, if you want women that are explicitly just as important as Marines... you don't get that with SoBs or Guard. 
* '''Sheer variety''': Marines get to be [[Space Wolves|viking werewolves]], [[Raven_Guard|stealth guerilla specialists]], [[Iron Hands|Tech-obsessed weirdos]], [[Thousand Sons|seekers of knowledge spellslingers with egyptian themeing]], [[Iron Warriors|brutal siegers]], [[Night Lords|psychotic terrorists and serial killers]], and a dozen more (and that's just focusing on the original Legions!). Sisters get to be... hardcore Catholic Nuns, and that's it. Which sucks for anyone who wants to play as women that are something else than Catholics or [[Imperial Guard|normal soldiers]]. While other Orders/offshoots are said to exist, they barely get more than a mention, and every Sisters model on the table or ones that appear in books are catholic nuns. 
* '''Overall presence in lore''': That one is pretty straight-forward: you can easily get to 300 books from Black Library that are centered around Marines/Primarch/Custodes, while Sisters get maybe a dozen (which is still more than Xenos get).   
* '''Power level''': Again, relatively straight forward: [[Jenetia Krole|the most powerful Sister of Silence to exist]] was swatted aside by [[Kharn]] so effortlessly that he didn't even realize he had actually killed someone, whereas he and [[Sigismund]] got epic duels where Sigismund eventually managed to beat him. Marines and Primarchs can defeat [[Shalaxi Helbane|Greater Daemons]] or [[Angron|Daemon Primarchs]], [[Saint Celestine]] was lucky she didn't get instagibbed by [[Abaddon]].
* '''It's even worse for non-imperial factions''':  Of the Eigth non-Imperium factions, [[Craftworld Eldar|only]] [[Dark Eldar|three]] [[Tau|races]] are noted to have women as important characters on the tabletop. [[Necrons]] can theoretically be of any gender and some books characters are women, but they are never seen on the tabletop, [[Leagues of Votann]] have female heads as options, but none of their actual characters are women. [[Orks]] are technically genderless, but are written as all men, and [[Tyranids]] are personality-less, sexless beasts. As for [[Chaos]], they're "Imperium, but evil", so we go back to the sausage-fest that are Space Marines. And since the Imperium is the most represented race in the setting, present in basically 95% of all GW output, you can count the number of times these Xenos women did something actually cool and important on one hand.
* '''GW knows all the above, and Femmarines are the easiest fix''': Do you really think GW will write 200 books focused on Sisters? Spent twenty real-life years telling the story of Jain Zhar? Suddenly start printing dozens of kits to make custom Orders? That you can undo 40 years of lore neglect? Space Marines are the moneymaker, GW's favourite faction, they will always be so, and GW isn't afraid to admit it. It is basically impossible for Guard/SoBs/Xenos to ever be on par with Marines in term of GW focus. So the most direct and laziest , low effort solution to the above problems and the one most likely for GW to ever go with is to make Femmarines.