Women and Armor!

[Aegis]

Even if the female armors are the only ones that are bikinis it is STILL not misogynistic. It is STILL not objectifying.

mi·sog·y·ny
noun \mə-ˈsä-jə-nē\
Definition of MISOGYNY

: a hatred of women

ob·jec·ti·fy
verb \əb-ˈjek-tə-ˌfī\

: to treat (someone) as an object rather than as a person

The only people here treating the female characters as objects are the ones insisting that they're being objectified simply by wearing the revealing armor.

You don't think dehumanising someone because of their gender is misogynistic? To treat someone as an object is to reduce their value as a human. You look at them and don't see a person, you see an object.

A woman can't wear the same piece of armour as a man (example: the Ninja AF) without being forced to expose their chest. A sexual element is introduced that is not present for the man. That's objectification. That's reducing someone to their physical characteristics. I don't care if you don't accept that or even if you don't understand it. It just is.

It might be harder to see with XIV because the examples are fairly modest. Consider Tera or Scarlet Blade or whatever. A guy in plate mail is a guy in plate mail. Functional (disregarding ludicrous spikes and pauldrons), deadly. A woman in the same gear is a walking pair of boobs and backside. There for titillation and, let's face it, fap material. That's objectification. No question.

In XIV the examples are more modest, but it's a quantitative difference, not a qualititive one. The difference is a matter of degree.

Galka are beastlike with a tail. Roegadyn are not a bit beastlike. They are just big with no tail.
only in the size.
standard elve type

So it's just a coincidence that the gender exclusivity was also carried over? Only female Miqo'te, only male Roegadyn? They were based squarely on XI races. How can you argue otherwise with a straight face?