Seriously, If You're Only Going To Create Designs For Women, Just Genderlock

[Magic-Mal]

To me the hangup about the Ao Dai is weird. You're taking it's irl equivalent and applying it to a fictitious example. Ao Dai are not any more bound by irl examples than anything else in Eorzea. Look at the physics. That place is not earth.

Are you saying that the actual women's Ao Dai that the devs put in is okay but asking for the men's version of the Ao Dai to be added is wrong because it's not Earth? Seriously? We're doing this again?

I feel like this could devolve into the same core discussion that your race baiting thread did where the base argument is whether or not Eorzea needs an injection of irl realism. I am of the mind that it does not. I can separate the two. Just because men don't really wear that sort of sweater that much in today's fashion doesn't make it feminine.

That wasn't even my thread.. don't put that on me lol. But based on that are you saying feminine things on men in RL aren't feminine on men in-game to you? Or just the sweater?

Also, not to beat the dead horse, but that sweater is a cable knit sweater. I supervised buyers for a major retail company for several of the last five years. Men wear cable knit sweaters. Not generally in pastel colors I'll grant (though around Easter anything goes) but it does happen. It may not be a younger person fashion but it's certainly not because of a gendering issue.

Okay I get it.. men can wear that sweater..

Overall it just seems like you're up in arms about nothing. I don't see the problem with unlocking these things to both genders just as you have people of both genders irl who wear clothes intended for the opposite sex. There is very little comfier to me than putting on a large t-shirt that belongs to my boyfriend and sleeping in that. It is men's clothes.

If anything we should be asking for less gender locking not more.

See my responses to others above you. I'm not actually asking to genderlock items. I'm making a point saying that they might as well genderlock because they won't make masculine things. Yes I bet we all wear men's clothes but that wasn't the point. The point was that male characters don't get masculine items. That's the core message.

In fact, I was never a supporter of locks in anything. Ever.