>>53119243It's purely for gameplay purposes. Assigning any deeper meaning to it or thinking design freedom should be restricted over it is stupid. So is acting like 85% = 100%, you might as well shit your pants because the Machamp line is 50% female. Just pretend the contextless image of a starter is whatever gender you prefer and move on.
Primarina is the only one that's actually unreadable as anything but a girl, anyway. Meowscarada and Cinderace are almost perfectly andro so they work equally well as tomboys or bishies and on model Delphox just looks like a very plain, gender neutral furry. 