Women and Armor!

[Aegis]

This might surprise you, but...

Those are two different shirts, they will have different PRNs. My wife can physically walk to the rack I got my shirt from, buy one (albeit probably in a much smaller size) and she will be wearing the same clothing as me.

Stop trying to be the staunch protector of women's rights

I just can't help posting when I see people who think chain mail bikinis are in some way empowering or at least not at all degrading.

I'm far from a feminist, but I'm able to spot blatant sexism when it jiggles past my face in 'plate mail' made of dental floss.

Yes, but there is a reason they invented the female tees. Because they look better on females than the regular, male ones.

Go figure.

Because they fit better. No one's arguing the meshes shouldn't change on a female character to accommodate the physical differences. There's a difference between making those alterations for practical reasons and making other alterations for seedier reasons.

If I bought the shirt and casually let the shop assistant know I was buying it for my wife, I wouldn't expect the shop assistant to gouge out a cleavage hole with a pair of scissors.

I've not once disagreed with options being a good thing. Looking at this from a realistic standpoint, it is NOT viable to create several variations of the same outfit just to cater to an uppity minority. Creating armor is incredibly time consuming, especially when you have to adapt it to multiple different body shapes and sizes.

Therefore, the only real option here is that the developers can either create a variety of different appearances for a single armor set, OR they can continue to make new armor sets.

This has been answered before, adapting a mesh takes far, far less time than creating an entirely new design (female coatee top is a different design to male coatee top). They would make far more gear, and more options by keeping designs the same between genders).

Also, why is sexuality even a bad thing? Sex is an act of love and creating new life. Our bodies are beautiful, why should we not appreciate them?

Exploitation is an act of degradation, not love.

If you're going to complain about sexuality, I expect you to also be complaining about the violence. If you refuse to, then you have no leg to stand on in this argument. Violence is far more horrible than showing some skin is.

Well, I see where you're coming from, but there are two flaws in this argument.

1: It is not necessary to fight one injustice (even a greater one) before complaining about another. It's like saying you can't complain about police violence because there's a genocide going on somewhere.

2: The violence depicted by our characters and the 'good guy' NPCs is pro-social violence, the same reason we don't see soldiers as being intrinsically evil: their job is to protect, the violence is necessary.

Indeed, violence itself is not inherently bad. A boxing match is not seen as 'evil' or 'horrible' (by most, there are exceptions) even though competitors hurt each other to gain points and there have been both injuries and deaths because of it.


(Sorry for the previous post edit, but I'm at my daily limit - I guess the women of Eorzea will have to do without my 'pretending to be a staunch defender of women's rights' for a while)

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Those are two different shirts, they will have different PRNs. My wife can physically walk to the rack I got my shirt from, buy one (albeit probably in a much smaller size) and she will be wearing the same clothing as me.

Yes, but there is a reason they invented the female tees. Because they look better on females than the regular, male ones. 95% (random guestimate) of females not ashamed of their bodies (for whatever reason) will go for a female tee.

Go figure.

Oh whatever. Clearly that is exactly the same thing as plate armor for a dude turning into a plate bikini on a girl. Besides the fact any woman can just wear a male t-shirt if they want. An option that often does not exist in games.

I just replied to this, see above.
But sure, and a man can also wear a skirt with thigh-high socks in real life. It would look quite bad, tho.
Those options do not exist in game because, unlike real life, you DON'T PAY for additional equip, while it costs resources to develop them.

Wait...

CASH SHOP GUYS
I JUST HAD AN AWESOME IDEA