WhO wOuLd It Be BuT mE?!?
Look, you people who are saying that people would choose the female body to gain a slight advantage are wrong, Bungie would set the kill boxes to be the same, like the elite and spartan are entirely the same as opposed to what you may think. the only difference is the visual figure of the character, which is what is being asked for. All that is wanted is for the visual figure of the character to be a slight bit different from the normal. Like as was aforementioned. to create a slight lump or outward protrusion to represent a woman's breasts, or slimming the figure in a small way not anything that would cause people be like "OHWTF IS THIS -blam!-?!?!" when they go back into Theater to get a screen shot, or film clip and they happen to see a bullet killing a character when it didn't even hit their body. If you take the back story of the game which, is that a Spartan is genetically enhanced human-being that is placed within a suit of armor which conforms their figure, literally like a glove. Taking cues from the back story, there were quite a few female Spartans, so placing a female choice to act as a representation of a female gamer, so she can be better recognized isn't to bad an idea. Also thanks to the genetic enhancements they were given they gained a taller, slightly bulkier figure which wasn't much smaller then the male figure, therefore not giving any advantage at all.
As for a female Elite, the same idea can be assumed, maybe a change in the facial features or other small things like that could be done.
[Edited on 08.01.2009 3:09 AM PDT]