Fallout is more interesting with a girl character, and you can make the player model less hideous than the guys. Even though I'm a guy I usually make girl characters in Fallout 3 and New Vegas.
Indeed. It gives a nice twist, and view too

And the way you deal with Benny with Black Widow perk is just what the assassin type character i play would do :hubbahubba:
I always play male, it's just to creepy for me to consider playing as a female.
This comes up a lot, my view is: play
with an opposite six character, not
as an opposite six character.
As i've said before, i find playing "as myself" more awkward than with a female character, mainly because the game just doesn't allow
anything close to what i would choose to do; "Screw you guys, i'm going to California!"