Can we have a Male Healer and a Female Tank?

[Gemina]

My question was, would people like to see a male character represent the next healer job and a female represent the next tank job. (This only includes official artwork, cgi and supplementary artwork do not count.)...

The question wasnt about masculinity or femininity, but the actual character that represents the job, should they be male or female.

To be direct, no. But anyone trying to explain their answer is going to have to go into what is masculine and feminine. It is in the nature of the question you ask.

To be elaborate about why I feel that way is because it's not a problem that with official artwork tanks are always represented by males, and healers are always represented by females. SJW types will make it a problem though because they will spew a bunch of nonsense that these representations enforce gender roles along with perpetuating patriarchy and female oppression. I feel this way because today's heroism in entertainment is overrun with Mary Sues and it's practically a crime to be a red-blooded male, oozing with masculinity. FFXIV's tanks being represented by a male with an axe bigger than he is, puts a foot in the ground and says, "we ain't having it!".

Healers being represented by females is the same. Just on the female side of the spectrum. It really is ok for females to be feminine, nurturing, supportive, and pretty, which is how healers have always been represented in the realm of Final Fantasy. These are qualities not weaknesses, and homogenous to females so it only makes sense that healers are always represented by them. They are strong, and it is erroneous to equate strength only with how much a person can lift or how hard they can hit.

[Eloah]

To be direct, no. But anyone trying to explain their answer is going to have to go into what is masculine and feminine. It is in the nature of the question you ask.

To be elaborate about why I feel that way is because it's not a problem that with official artwork tanks are always represented by males, and healers are always represented by females. SJW types will make it a problem though because they will spew a bunch of nonsense that these representations enforce gender roles along with perpetuating patriarchy and female oppression. I feel this way because today's heroism in entertainment is overrun with Mary Sues and it's practically a crime to be a red-blooded male, oozing with masculinity. FFXIV's tanks being represented by a male with an axe bigger than he is, puts a foot in the ground and says, "we ain't having it!".

Healers being represented by females is the same. Just on the female side of the spectrum. It really is ok for females to be feminine, nurturing, supportive, and pretty, which is how healers have always been represented in the realm of Final Fantasy. These are qualities not weaknesses, and homogenous to females so it only makes sense that healers are always represented by them. They are strong, and it is erroneous to equate strength only with how much a person can lift or how hard they can hit.

Bless you and your response. While it may be more than what the initial question asked for, you answered it beautifully.

Truth be told, I don't care/mind who the next "Warrior of Light" is, mostly because this game doesn't restrict you from playing who/how you want. I just posed the question mostly because I am a male healer and would like more representation, and because as a whole, encompassing all games/genres, male healers tend to be sparse. Looking at Final Fantasy alone, we've only really had two "confirmed" male healers (Minwu & Hope) and they span 11 games apart; and there are other factors that work against them as well, but that's not so important now.

It was just curiosity that made me ask. Granted the current debate might skew things a bit, but that's all it was, curiosity.