I've been playing Borderlands 3 a lot in my spare time recently, and something occurred to me about it. A large number of stupid people hate the story(or game outright) for being "woke," most often meaning the main characters of the plot are women(Lilith, Tannis, and Ava)
Obviously, that isn't "woke". Just putting that out there right now that "having a plot with women in the spotlight more than men" isn't BAD. But i realized why the plot kinda had to do that(focus on those 3 so much):
Gearbox made the mage a girl in BL1
Realistically, the classes in Borderlands(especially BL1) can be thought of as basic RPG staples tweaked for the games' universe: Soldier=Warrior(or Paladin, as seen in TTAoDK), Marksman=Ranger, Berserker=Barbarian, etc.
The Sirens are just the Mage class. And at some point, they gender-locked that class. At some later point(around BL2 era), they made the Mage class super OP(for NPCs), so by the time of BL3, they had made the Mage class one of the most important abilities in the game universe, with heavy ties to basically everything in BL lore(Pandora ITSELF exists because of the Mage class)
So, why would BL3 focus so heavily on Lilith(a technical former Mage), Tannis(a current Mage), and Ava(a future Mage)? Because they are the Mages. The important ones. No other existing character could really stand next to them as "similarly important" without needing to basically be sacrificed as a damsel. No other existing character(barring Gaige with Phaseshift) would make sense to get the Mage powers that are so integral to the plot, either. You'd have to make a new character more qualified to get the power, then go back and kill the current user(and in doing so, we got Ava)
The game didn't focus on women for some bullshit "woke, anti-men" ideology(if you see that, that's kinda on you), it did so because all the Mages were women
