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Why do a lot of System sets these days use female, rather than male, joints to begin their limbs?
E.g. for a set with system-CCBS joints, the torso will have female joint ends for the shoulders and hips, with the male joints being used to attach the arms and legs. If it were the other way around, however, wouldn't it be much less restrictive? Metalbeard here shows this off a little, though I think in his case the decorative bricks beside his head would have to be shortened to improve articulation further.
There are cases where this distinctly isn't true, like with the Exo-force/Knights Kingdom style snap friction joints, and this is also on Metalbeard, but I feel like the female-male rather than male-female arrangement is common on sets that use bionicle joint or mixel joint parts.
