Gender locked race?

[Tabbs]

Sounds more like a dislike of feminine men than homophobia, as such.

Often this is the way straight people's homophobia is. They dislike the mannerisms of feminine men. It's homophobic for them, it's homophobic for us gays. Regardless, you have no reason to "dislike" feminine men. If it was not homophobic, it would still be bad... What did they do to make you dislike them? It's one thing to have preferences, but "disliking" them implies more than a preference.

[Lauront]

Often this is the way straight people's homophobia is. They dislike the mannerisms of feminine men. It's homophobic for them, it's homophobic for us gays. Regardless, you have no reason to "dislike" feminine men. If it was not homophobic, it would still be bad... What did they do to make you dislike them? It's one thing to have preferences, but "disliking" them implies more than a preference.

His reasons are his own to have/justify. In the end, a dislike is just a preference against, as opposed to in favour of, something. And when it comes to playable races, he may just want the range of bara/hyper-masculine options expanded. Given the range of customisability SE offers when adding a race, it's pretty much going to fit a given archetype and little else besides. They've only violated this pattern for one race. As much as I'd like for the au ra subraces to be dimorphous, they probably won't be, and that's assuming they even add the males!

FWIW, my own preference would be along the lines of the races I mentioned in my earlier post. I'm pretty much selfishly hoping for that as opposed to overly twinky/feminine or overly bearish/masculine.

Also unless we can keep this about rabbits I'm thinking this should be our last row on the topic, at least for me - feels a bit straying (even if it started about feminine rabbits).

Agreed.

[Colino]

What did they do to make you dislike them? It's one thing to have preferences, but "disliking" them implies more than a preference.

It doesn't really. Disliking something means just that, not liking it. That doesn't mean hating or being afraid of it which is what a phobia is. People can feel more than 0% or 100% about something, you can feel "meh" or in-between about something and just not care or "like" it. I'd personally feel the same about bunny boys but at the same time I'm completely impartial and don't care because people can like what they like even when I don't and it wouldn't affect me since I'm unlikely to change from lalafell after 8+ years anyway. Anyway sorry to bring that back up.

I quite like some of the designs that were posted here, I definitely see the case for the burly bunny-men too. If lion-people are true they could go both ways and try to please everyone right?