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

[Noxifer]

What exactly are you expecting here? What if the 'official response' is simply that the design team likes to design female gear over male gear? Are you just going to whine about it being 2015 and some nonsense about equality in a virtual world?

Your subscription affords you the same content as everyone else. There are no restrictions placed on you about what gender you play in the game other than YOUR choices. People around here really need to stop acting like it is the developers that are making these choices for you.

Considering the "official response" regarding genders back when ARR came out was along the lines of, "We gave both genders the same initial stats, to make sure players can choose the gender they want to play as, and not the one with the greatest benefits," that's... pretty contradictory to the apparent stance of, "Yeah, you can play either gender, but this gender gets a serious advantage in the Fashion End Game."
(And no, stats and glamour isn't the same thing, but it's still a matter of balance between the genders, something they were in favour of before, but then seemingly forgot about when it came to clothes...)

Yeah, the ratio in most combat-oriented MMOs like Final Fantasy, Everquest, World of Warcraft, is somewhere between 75/25 or 82/18 male/female. Male players just seem to have less of an issue playing female characters than the reverse, for some reason. It's almost as if the "this world favors men all the time" feminist trope is actually not true for pretty much most of relevant life. It could be true for the 1% of wall street people who try to make the poor poorer, but I'm not with them to know if they treat their males like kings and their females like paupers.

Um... From when are those numbers? Would you mind linking studies pointing to those ratios?
According to one study in 2014, the MMO gender ratio in the US was at approximately 60/40 (m/f) (link)
The same numbers came out in 2009 (blog entry discussing and linking a BBC article regarding it)
And according to the Everquest team (in that 2009 article)... female players had a higher tendency to be more dedicated players, "spending more time each day playing the game than their male counterparts".

Wouldn't hold my breath tbh.

I see what you did there :3

You'll just have to get over the fact that it will always be that way, it's not generally accepted

....said men when women wanted to wear pants/trousers in public. And vote.

And people like you KEEP reading only what you want to read, i was responding to another poster who mentioned it, and no 'cross dressing" isn't in this game, unless you can show me a male character wearing a bikini intended for a female or a bustier. or any other outfit that is CLEARY female only and can be worn on males. you do understand the difference, right? if you're refering to the long skirts and kilts like dungeon gear, those actually look decent on male characters or not as "feminine" as they would being called skirts etc.

So, wait... skirts aren't considered female clothes anymore? Awesome, that means no one will even look weirdly at me when I go out in a skir....oh wait. They would. And I live in a very open-minded town. Take the average town/city and there'd probably be either verbal or physical abuse.
You can't define "cross-dressing" by saying "this normally female garment doesn't count as crossdressing, because it looks ok on a guy". You can't define "cross-dressing" as "it has to be a female-only piece", because that's akin to telling an average-sized guy IRL that it's not cross-dressing unless he puts on something from that rack labelled "size 0" -- it's not possible, and not because of social norms.

It just doesn't work that way.