User blog comment:DuttPanda/GODDAMN IT SUPER/@comment-26814804-20170124033403/@comment-3097771-20170124195155

I have some thoughts about this.

While it is true that there are few female warriors of notability (Chi-Chi, Ranfan, Videl, etc are not notable imo because they are all much weaker than even Raditz), this in and of itself is not a bad thing. Art is not a democracy. Toriyama can make every warrior of his a man, and that is not inherently a bad thing.

I personally have a problem with people who say "there aren't enough females, so I'm going to make my character female just to balance things out". Gender should be determined based on what is best for the character. In the case of Dion, it looks like there wasn't that issue. I'm just saying, though. There is just as much a temptation to start making every new character a female to balance things out as there is to never have any female warriors.

The lack of notable PTO officers is a fault, in my opinion, though, simply because they are all aliens. Female humans are physically weaker than male humans on average, and even the strongest women today cannot touch the strongest men. For aliens, Toriyama is not limited by human biology, and yet he still has almost entirely male characters. That's entirely his call. I wish there were more, but again, art is not a democracy, and there's nothing any of us can or should do to change that.

While I can see both sides of the argument (the same male-centric claim can be made about my main fanon, The Forgotten)), I want to push back against the notion that diversity for diversity's sake is a good idea. Diversity of ideas, of personality, of culture is wonderful. Diversity just to have a female character, or a human of an uncommon ethnicity, or stuff like that is bad diversity. Organic diversity is always better than forced diversity.

PS: Zangya is the girl you're missing. She's likely the third strongest female in canon, behind the female LSS and Vados. She's an awesome character. -KidVegeta (talk)