Quote Originally Posted by Physic View Post
how is bulky men beasts sexist, explain it to me. This really annoys me, because bulky males are not a common male fantasy in the world, they are not commonly an idealized male, and they are not extremely popular or over represented in this game.

Just feels like a lot of people hate large males existence.

we got one large male in this game before now. Rodegayn, thats it. They are often mocked, not extremely popular, bringing them up as some type of over represented commercial appeal class is complete nonsense.

the prettified slim-average low fat build male is our society's current idealized male fantasy.
Hyper-masculine is the word you're looking for here. The idea that if a race is male-only, they will always be hyper-masculine beings. That's how Galka are. That's how Roes were before my kind was reconned in (the size disparity between male and female roe is still a little awkward). And that's how Hrothgar are shaping up to be.

It doesn't even make any sense, because there would be no reason for males to grow to these extraordinary sizes considering they wouldn't be fighting one another for females. The question is, who is this for? Why is this important? Do we need this? What does this add to the game?

If they had introduced a male only race with a strong backstory that followed some interesting evolutionary development paths, I'd be on board. That's a great opportunity to explore just how a race of beings who were mono-gendered (and that gender being specifically 'male') might evolve.

This just looks like another excuse to introduce hyper-sexualized females and hyper-masculine males without really thinking about what it means to add these races to the world.