dtgreene: How is asking a question "activism"? All I did there is ask a factual question (that is, one that has an indisputable yes or no answer) right there.
pimpmonkey2382.313: No matter what it is you have to bring it up. You could be talking about a hurricane and possibly bring up whether it's damn name is male or female.
That's not true. I only bring it up because 1st edition AD&D had lower limits for female strength, but no later edition did, so asking about older editions is reasonable.
Also, it is worth noting that rules like that do tend to put off female players from the game. (I believe this rule was actually commonly rule zeroed away by DMs for this reason and other reasons.)