Gender locked race?

[Lauront]

Note that Alleo talked about enemies.
Ifrit, Titan, Levi. They're all either animals or ... whatever Titan's supposed to be.
Then you have Shiva and Garuda and Lakshmi. You can call lore elements all you want but the fact remains you're not going to find a completely deformed female enemy because they want them to still be waifu material.
Speaking of Waifu, there's Pazuzu, and Waifuzuzu - Penny. Pazuzu's a flying piece of armor while Penny is a lovely, elegant, attractive humanoid lady with wings.
And you can say what you want about male Au Ra, but they came along with some grade A+ Waifu material with fem Au Ra. That's the issue here. And it's so prevalent that the "fierce, amazonian" Viera were shown in the reveal trailer to be all cutesy and giggly.

I'm much less bothered about what the enemies look like. Technically, we know from some cases you can't even tell the gender, e.g. Ixal, Goblins, Amaljaa etc. It's more that the foes with ostensibly female features tend to be pretty. Still, there's plenty of things that could be female, but you wouldn't even know. And then things that look female, but aren't, like some Voidsent. Primals tend to be worshiped as gods, so I'm not surprised by the way their followers choose to represent them, in terms of their cultural ideals. Garuda is arguably beautiful but she is still considered to be the most ferocious of the earlier primals.

Regarding playable races, I was sorely disappointed with female au ra. One need not even have made them amazonian, just taller. However, I'd have also tried to link them to the dragonflights in some way and based their traits off that, with xaela being capable of sporting slightly more monstrous features and raen as they are (minus taller women), so my thoughts on them are already a bit divergent to where most people's are. I still dislike the females. I'm not all too surprised about the Viera, considering what I think they're being used to do, but yes they are very, very effeminate. At least they didn't make them tiny.

I meant it more in the way that we have more beastly looking males (be it as enemies or as races) than female ones and having only female Vieras and a more beastly male race would just go into that very direction which would be sad for me because I wish I could play a more beastly women without having to go Roe. (I mean that is the only female race right now that can compete with the not-so-cute races and yet they are still nothing against their male version)

I certainly understand that, but what of highlander females? Yes, they're not super bulky or butch but they're less cutesy than any other female pick and they're still pretty. I get the impression that some people just want reverse dimorphism, because I struggle to see how roe or highlander females can't be played as amazonian. Or is there some other issue with them? Maybe I'm missing what is meant by "beastly" here.

Just look at Sophia and Lakshimi and compare them to Byakko, Zurvan and most other male bosses. Heck our snake boy is the only one that is more pretty than beastly. (As far as I can remember)

I mean Zurvan and Byakko both have handsome faces, but they're muscular. Muscularity is a trait that is perceived to be attractive on males, mostly for evolutionary reasons. Not necessarily to extremes, and yes Zurvan has a scorpion body (much like Lamias have snake bodies), and I'll agree that the balance is definitely more in favour of the women being beautiful, but I can't say it bothers me that much. As I said, there's plenty of females out there that we simply can't tell are females. I'm sure Sorceress Adel will make a cameo at some point, though.

I must be alone in not finding Seiryu particularly attractive.