Au Ra, what are they?

[Ashkendor]

Meh, this doesn't surprise me. While a LOT better than many examples, FFXIV devs still seem to labor under the impression that the game should be tailored for heterosexual male tastes regardless of the fact that the game has a substantial female playerbase. Manly men are fine. Even bishonen are fine. But cutesy Uke-type boys? No way - that might trigger a precious male subscriber! Ditto for no girly outfits for men (plenty of manly clothes for women, of course - no bruising of delicate male sensibilities there!).

Can we keep this stuff on tumblr? Seriously. Your claim that there's no "girly outfits" for men is pretty ridiculous, too. Just look at the Coliseum set and most of our caster gear. If you want something more recently added, how about the Uraeus Skirt? Do females get a greater number of feminine choices than males do? Yes. That doesn't change the fact that males still have some available.

I doubt they'll ever add Garleans as a playable race. As much as I'd love that to happen I can't see them doing it with their inability to wield Aether unless they somehow manage to get around that by having a Garlean Warrior of Light being some sort of exception. All they really need to do is add a 'Third Eye' glamour as well as some of the gear used by the likes of Livia, Gaius, Regula and Nero. Combined with some facial tweaks for Hyur it'd be fairly easy to portray a Garlean that way.

I kinda feel like it'd be some kind of weird lore cop-out if a pureblood Garlean could even be a WoL.