but once she gave us a task of trying think of one game where a strong female is the main protagonist and we could only think of laura croft and thats literally it
If men are tasked with more laborous tasks (fighting, lifting, general game activities, etc), then it only makes sense to have them as the playable character.
I mean really, would it make any sense to have your average woman (or even a strong-on-the-woman-scale woman) put in the place of Rico Rodricuez/Bren McGuire/Gordon Free
man/other god-tier combat expert? Besides, when the devs are dumb enough to try something like that, it's virtually almost fanservice, and that's even more loveist.
I'd personally just give up when arguing with women-superioritists. It's a neverending spiral of hate and misconstrued generalizations that lead nowhere faster than a blind man giving directions.