I'm not a fan of the gender lock, though I'm even less of a fan of the unfortunate fact that Viera men have been hijacked by a vocal group of players who wish for them to be extremely androgynous, feminine and young looking. Add to that their desire to dress them in suggestive glamour, I think it would be a very bad decision for the developers to design them in such a manner.

So, in short...I'm only interested in Viera men being added if they're designed to be the fierce defenders of the forest that they're implied to be. Anything else would simply be pandering in my eyes. I do think the entire situation could have been avoided/mitigated by simply announcing the gender lock earlier.