You still had to pick between male or female, but this choice was almost entirely perfunctory once you moved onto the next menu. Amongst sliders for muscularity, fatness and age, there was a curious one simply labeled “body shape.” Push this slider to the right, and your character’s shoulders would broaden and a bulge would appear in their groin. Slide it all the way to the right, and their hips would widen as breasts formed on their chest.

Yes, in an age where getting to play as anybody but a cishet white man was a rarity, the prescient woke chad of a game that is Saints Row 2 measured gender on a spectrum.

Wait a second, I'm confused. I thought gender was how you FELT and how you fit into societally defined roles. Now you're telling me that boobah = female and groin bulge = male?!