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I for one appreciate how 40k has kept much of the out much of the exaggerated sexuality of woman that is so prevalent in games/video games etc.

In the Eisenhorn books one of his retinue is Arianhrod Esw Sweydyr, a swordswoman from Carthae, which is a female-dominated matriarchal soceity. The women are really tall and expert swordswomen, like Amazons i guess.

like other people have said the stripper/soldier is so common in every fantasy videogame, comic, game, book out there that it causes it to lose credability.
hell even look at DE if they all werent sex obsessed torture loving rapists it wouldnt make sense to have them that over-sexed

if they didi it i think GW would go the stripper/solder way because its the norm so im happy with a sausage fest regiment cuz in the end its solid compromize

Eh, I'd much rather see women treated as equals rather then show as objects of sexual desire.

Of course, I'll probably have to go the opposite way in artwork, since WH;40k is basically selling adolescent fantasies.

Well if you think about it. In the imperium all humans serve the emperor alone. So yes, if you think about it, women would have the same "serving" rights as men. A example is that women would be alowed to do all roles men can do (excluding space marines, as the way they are geneticlly engernierd cannot be used for women)

So inmy opinion, the role of women in the Imperium is the same as men's.

The whole FSM thing is a thorny issue. Personally, I'll laugh my ass off if it suddenly dawns on GW there's a potential market there and offers them. We'll see so many SM players go into epileptic fits I'd make a SM army just to watch the other players foam at the mouth.