/shrug
It's par for the course to see such backlash against the modding of a game for someone else's daughter because of the lack of female heroes targeting her demographic. Cry about generalizations all you want, it's definitely an issue with gaming.
I don't know how to feel about the whole issue. Or rather, how I should feel, because right off the bat I feel it was kind of cute. But should I?
I realize I'm applying a double standard here. I know full well what I would think of anyone that did the opposite, i.e. alter one of the painfully few female main characters to make her a him, in order to not "confuse" his/her son. How would any of you feel if Alis Landale, Terra, Celes, Jade, Samus, Chell, were replaced by a dad who was concerned about his son playing as a female character? I know I would be livid. :/
Is it because there are so painfully few half-decent female main characters that I feel what he did was not only acceptable, but adorable in a way, while I think the opposite would have me screaming bloody murder? Is alteration of a work acceptable to me only when it is in the direction of balance? I'm not sure what to think about my own opinion. :/
As a side, depressing point, listing as many as seven female main characters that aren't a complete insult to women not only took the most time out of this whole post, but several of them are already interchangeable with a generic male character (I also did leave out Bayonetta, if only because making her look even remotely male would probably take a bit more than edition pronouns...).