If you insist on approaching this matter with logic and common sense you need to get off the internet. :D
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Great way to sum it up, OP!
You guys are really bored, aren't you? 18 pages of worthless arguments on sementics that achieve absolutly nothing.
And then you complain that SE doesn't listen to the official forums enough...
unisexual is not unisex. unisexual has a very specific definition that means exactly what we are talking about.
the devs are giving players a race to play with. "playable races" was not added to the phrase for context, "playable races" is where you start. "playable races" is the topic.
of course it's stupid if someone is purposely going to make it something it's not.
and there is no nuance about the word unisexual, it means exactly what the word means. but this statement "races that are playable but locked to one gender." why is locked the appropriate word at all? isn't limited the best word there?
I agree that it is mistaken to infer any malice on part of the devs, or to try hurl any number of isms and phobias at them in terms of the usual fashionable "social crusades" raging these days, as 1) it's their game at the end of the day, 2) we know this is a business decision and 3) even if it wasn't, calling them names isn't going to sweeten their disposition much nor does everyone subscribe to the "social crusades" in question. I definitely don't.
However, it is a "lock" however you wish to phrase it. At the least, the males do exist for Viera and they're not currently available to play. SE are reviewing whether they will maintain it. It's pedantic to try pretend that this doesn't amount to what is usually understood by a "gender lock". Whether you call it "limited" or "genderlocked", the same exact arguments apply anyway.
I would like to see male Viera and female Hrothgar added, but I'm willing to wait. I will be saddened if they don't add them.