Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
It's not fear. They're just not the popular aesthetics they're made out to be when it comes to mainstream audiences and are vastly overrated by a very vocal portion of players who often have projected issues with conventional standards of beauty. Often because they're very obsessed with making a character look as close to themselves as possible or they're doing it because of niche preferences.

When it comes to feminine men there's the added baggage of some very creepy individuals having revealed themselves to the community at large by pushing for child-like models or making bizarre, weird statements about Alphinaud.

After all, Yoshi-P had to make a statement recently explicitly stating that child-like viera would never be a thing for moral and ethical reasons. In addition to that, I believe a major FFXIV Discord lost official recognition due to inappropriate art being posted there.

So, no - it isn't as clear cut as 'fear'. A lot of us are just well aware of what is really being pushed for in many cases after reading between the lines/seeing horrific comments in various threads and in-game chat channels.

That isn't applicable to every case. Some people are fairly innocent when making their requests for such things. Though Yoshi-P has thankfully ruled it out altogether to prevent problems later down the line.



It's not 'cowardice' either. Again, see the above commentary.
Exactly. It's like we always have to fill some "diversity" quota nowadays, and not everything is or has to be a political statement. Like so many people pushing for male viera to look 'feminine' or 'cute', makes literally no sense. From everything I have read about them, they don't come off like that in my mind. We literally have females to fill that niche.