Well may as well weigh in
An extreme example would be the handful of EoM people.
The female EoM pilot, people say "oh hello, how is your day" and other polite conversations.
The male EoM pilot, there is a lot more "Oh, it's the death cultist. Burn anyone today?" and so on.
This is indeed more-or-less the case! Particularly among anyone who wouldn't know who my character or corp actually are, or simply don't care (I'm looking at you, Tarunik
). But first impressions with my kindly old lady character have generally been positive with most anyone. Whenever I do poke her nose into a public channel, such as the Summit, it's often the Amarrian hardliners that will be the first to scorn her. I like that a lot. Really, she ought to be condemned. That's the kind of dynamic I was after when her concept was just forming; the pious old villain lady with a heart of gold. I really don't think this would work the same with a male character at all, where she would've likely been painted as another Koronakesh then treated as such from the start.
So yes, I believe it does make a difference, and I did make the decision to create Safai as a female based on this. "The Baroness to Koro's Cobra Commander" is an analogy I like to use ... or, for those that remember ME1 well enough, perhaps "The Benezia to Koro's Saren."
However, my prior character, who some may recall, was also female but really very male. She talked like a man, acted like a man, and (perhaps most importantly) looked like a man, which was also by design. But it's hard to tell if this really affected the way her chats played out because she was also a huge dick to most people. She was never meant to be likeable. (But re: full time ass is another thread ...) In any case that character is no longer mine, so onward into the future.
The fact that there are "no male blood raiders" really amuses me though. Why?! Evil cultists in robes are cool, much more so than space vampire lesbians 
At least EoM has Koronakesh.
More Palpatines please.
Oh man, for real. I've wondered about that before too. Space vampire lesbian fantasies aside, I seriously wonder where all the male Blood Raiders are hiding.
I'd actually like more Palpatine types of any sort, be it a sicko cultist
or Orthodox Amarrian. I'm talking about a ghoulish, non-holder, speaker-of-truths style man, who can't help but disturb anyone he is talking to. This character type would be off the scale of the female-male spectrum when it comes to the approachability and interaction being discussed in this thread, and admittedly not everyone's cup of tea, but you'd think there would be at least a handful of people who are into playing that other than my lovably creepy CEO.
Also, FWIW, the Seekers' M/F character ratio is currently 5/2.
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