I've always chosen the male, and I plan to choose the male in 6th gen, too. Yet I chose Rosa for BW2 for the following reasons:
1. This was the first time I purchased a sequel/3rdversion. I wanted to make my playthrough as different as possible from BW1.
2. The male's appearance bugged me. Neither his hair or his shorts.
3. The female's appearance, on the other hand was appealing. [FONT="]("[/FONT]⌒∇⌒[FONT="]")[/FONT]
It kinda bugs me that the male character is automatically associated with blue, and the girl with pink, however. I don't mind their clothing, but do the inventory bag and even the pencil while saving also have to be that scheme? With upcoming character customization, I'm hoping that genders won't be auto-assigned colors.