User blog comment:Toothless99/Things I noticed/@comment-4320723-20120425222410

Dreamworks was trying to create a hot figure for Hiccup to have a crush on. Would Astrid have looked good in a helmet? Nope. Cressida Crowell clearly doesn't really care about the whole female thing. If you asked her about it she'd just say she hadn't mentioned them because there isn't a need to.