(Lack Of)Female Enemies in Video Games

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If you're talking about a game based on a set period in time, that's probably its justification. Everything in Double Dragon was stylized to the point of absurdity intentionally. Heck, Poison ends up becoming a professional wrestling manager in Street Fighter. The same absurdity can be said of Batman. Its based around a comic that started a century ago.
Another thing you have to consider is controversy. There will always be an outspoken controversy to things in games. Street Fighter V's beta was censored because R. Mika has a wrestling character personality and likes to showboat in the most over the top fashion possible, like wrestlers do for the crowd. People were raging about Resident Evil 5 being racist for having the characters kill black zombies in AFRICA.