Quote Originally Posted by BillyKaplan View Post
By that same logic it would've made a lot more sense to introduce male Viera over male Hroths for the ladies (and us men) who enjoy looking at attractive men, too.
We already know why they added male Hroths, and we already know why they added female Viera. Those reasons are in direct contradiction to each other as Viera was the race more asked for and the males likely would've been played more than male Hroths, while Viera bring little to the table aesthetically compared to Hroths, all the more so for females because guys got male Au Ra while the ladies got a Miqo'te clone.
Defending one decision inevitably undermines the 'justification' used for the other genderlock's existence.



Didn't Yoshida himself admit that one of the reasons why "beastly races" got such high demand in the older poll because they lumped Viera in there lmao
The difference is less players are female and less players play male characters. This is why we see so much favor towards glamour with female characters, something I would imagine the group of people complaining about a lack of male Viera would be aware of.

You're equating the results of devs pandering to men with the results of pandering to women. These aren't the same.