I'm arguing against character creation, not female characters.
And i'm saying in comparison to Saint's Row, their activities are much more tied to who the character is and does.
I don't see a big difference between a changeable gender and complete character customization.
Remember GTA:SA, where you could eat so much that CJ got really really fat? As if this wasn't fun. And having a fully customized character is even more of that. They could have put CJ in there as default, but when are options a bad thing?
Because I could have beaten San Andreas using a fat, black, bi-sexual lady with a pink afro and "ruined" the story for me personally? Why the fuck not? If you care about that, just play using the default CJ. Problem solved.
If Houser wants to write a movie with "characters", then he should just simply write a fucking movie.