>>41705>The lore literally says there are no female Custodes and explains WHY, so retroactively changing this is retarded tokenistic pandering>The lore literally says there are no female Custodes and explains WHY, so retroactively changing this is retarded tokenistic panderingI think people want female space marines because they're noobs so accusing them of tokenistic pandering is just jumping to conclusions but you're otherwise correct. I also used to think it would be cool to see female space marines (I like Samus Aran) but now I know the lore and the fact that Sisters of Battle exist.
>in doing so, you lose the entire Roman-fascist satire that The Imperium is about as >>41704 mentionsI thought it meant to be an ironic twist on the progressive Enlightenment values that shows how they themselves can become conservative. Stirner pointed out the hypocrisy of liberal humanism and pious atheism a long time ago, 40k is just a more blatant attempt at that. So I think the Imperium is meant to be a kind of progressive fascism, the kind of fascism Marinetti originally envisioned, and 40k shows how much it would still suck ass.
So yeah, I think the Imperium is meant to be progressive. But progressive in a regressive way, the kind of progressivism we mock nowadays. Not the same as idpol tho, more like Enlightenment values driven to their logical conclusion of human supremacy and a religious devotion to the state and the God of Atheism (personified in-universe as the God-Emperor as a form of twisted irony).