So its 0-2 in the male female glamour department, yay?

[BreathlessTao]

I'm hopeing they learn and do the new bunny suit right and do it like I mentioned above.

Wouldn't hold my breath tbh. In any case, nobody even said anything about a new bunny suit as far as I'm concerned - they showed a picture of the floppy bunny ears is all, which a) was promised months ago, I think even before HW was released; b) is already worn at least by one NPC in the GS btw, so really not sure what took them so long (not sure if it's the same as I haven't seen the picture myself, but yeah); c) for all we know they either make that female-exclusive as well, or make it unisex and leave the original one untouched.

On the whole, what's funny is the fact that if the situation was reverse, and the male characters were favoured with both exclusive and unisex outfits, the girls (the actual girl players, but especially those also playing girl characters) would have been in a very loud s×××storm outrage, after the very first such occasion, over discrimination, sexism, whatnot - things that really aren't (or wouldn't be) there, but words which are baits, which make situations look worse than they are just to get more attention, because it would be oh-so-unfair and how would they dare anyway. So much so that SE would have had to take several steps back asap and probably issue a public apology too.
This way though? Everything's fine and dandy and we guys should just stfu and accept the situation that "isn't serious" at all and "just optional" anyway and "well we have a custom dress, but I would you please give us more because it's not perfect as it is"...

Yeah, sorry if I'm a bit overly dramatic, but seeing things on news sites as well as tumblr, I can't envision any other scenario if the girls would be getting treated like this. -_-

[Serilda]

This way though? Everything's fine and dandy and we guys should just stfu and accept the situation that "isn't serious" at all and "just optional" anyway and "well we have a custom dress, but I would you please give us more because it's not perfect as it is"...

Yeah, sorry if I'm a bit overly dramatic, but seeing things on news sites as well as tumblr, I can't envision any other scenario if the girls would be getting shafted. -_-

No, look, can we please stop equating this with real life sexism? It's sexism, sure, but since anyone can pick their character's gender you can't say "People are only angry because it's men affected!" or "If it was women, this would have caused a real problem by now!" because a sizeable number of those affected are openly women. All this stance is doing is dividing a group being discriminated against and making half of your own allies feel bad needlessly.

I think it's distracting to focus on something like that. There are so many reasons for wanting equality in costume options, and so many reasons people might play a gender which doesn't match their own. Perhaps they like looking at sexily-dressed guys (whatever their real gender). Perhaps they're afraid of the precedent it sets for race-locking and other limitations in future. Perhaps they want to play a male character but don't want to lose glamour options. Perhaps they're just kind and want fairness for everyone.

Conversely, some of the people with female characters who strongly oppose the idea of equality are openly dudes, a fact which continues to baffle me.

(It has also been pointed out by another poster - using a female character on the forums - that the new bunny costume is an entirely new set with dye options. So we're being cheated out of much more than just ears, again.)