True. Now, when I first heard of his character, I was expecting a less gruff character--rather like the traveller...making him a character more like Pie'oh'pah from Imajica.
I was actually hoping DS9 would be surreal
But Odo was more gruff than that of course. David Banks in his books had two different sexless races--Cybermen all seem masculine. The denizens of the ice world more uniformly feminine.
Odo is Chaz--he is a cop, and as such seems more male.