Women and Armor!

[BlaiseArath]

Men like to watch women. Women like to watch men. It's how humans are built.

Can this be said again? And a lot? Just this part.

I would like to say that not all male gamers pick female characters just to look at something pretty... I rolled a female because in XI, Mithra were an all female race, and in XIV, I stuck with Female Miqo entirely because I was a Mithra in XI (which I chose because of its high base DEX, mind you, I was like 11 or something and didn't care about feminist propaganda back then. Still don't, interesting fact, but thats not what I'm arguing against here.)

I agree that, I think having armor that looks stalwart and practical, much like PLD AF/Relic is on Female, for females is a good idea, and a good thing, since I'd prefer some of that too. To be fair, these is a good bit of "not sexy" armor for females. the Darksteel Set for one, makes you look like a giant tin can just like males. PLD AF/Relic as I mentioned, is pretty gender neutral. More armor choices. I don't think "Sexy"(Don't think thats the right word but its whats been used) armor should be removed entirely and replaced by a new line of conservative armor that covers your body from head to toe like the Darksteel trash can armor, like some of you seem to be requesting, because that wouldn't be equality, it would be completely destroying one side(The side you don't like) so you don't get offended anymore (modern feminism, not that you guys are).

Equality means both Scantily clad and Conservative pratical armor should be available for a female to wear... and It is in XIV to some degree. As a female character theres little armor that I wear that feels like its biased toward females, and I play NIN, SMN, and PLD. The Wootz armor on my PLD looks the same as it does on a male, my Divine Hero/Ironworks gear looks pretty much identical, my Scyllas robe reveals as much boob as it does on a man... I mean theres very few examples of armor being "Sexified" that I actually wear. Plus, you'd have to pull a really f**king impressive discussion for me to believe women don't want to feel sexy too.

Men have their Banana hammocks too ya know.

Also I know someone mentioned Male Power Fantasy as a joke, but, like... in case anyone was seriously thinking that argument is valid



Anyway, in case its lost... I agree there should be more variety in armor for females, not saying there ISNT variety already, but I'm not against adding more gender neutral armor choices for those who like it.