Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
That wasn't how it played out at all.

Some of the same people initially pushing for child-like viera simply switched to pushing for feminine, androgynous and short viera instead. That more than anything is why there's a measure of suspicion surrounding those pushing for such aesthetics. To say nothing of the fact that it doesn't even fit with how Yoshi-P and Matsuno envision male viera to begin with.

Now, that isn't to say that everybody asking for feminine and androgynous male viera is in the same basket. Though the damage has already been done and the simple fact that Yoshi-P had to state outright that child-like viera will not be added to the game is incredibly troubling.
I think the term you're looking for is "Dog-whistling", people using events/conversations as an excuse to slip in their own views and signal to other people that share them through coded language. and to be fair, the same thing has happened on the other side of the coin, as people have used the exclusion of male viera as an excuse to spew some rather homophobic beliefs.

Honestly, I for one am in the camp that would adore to have more feminine viera, but this can easily be achieved by the team just putting in the obligatory "young/feminine" facial option in one of the 4 they give upon character creation; every race has one, so I know for a fact they'd get one as well. So I don't know why people are infighting when it comes to the body type/look of male viera, because they won't have one single look. All square needs to do is give us the faces, and give the muscle slider to every race dammit. I will never understand why only hyur have it.

Ironically enough, a JP friend of mine was here when male miqo's were released and commented that various JP players found the catboys too masculine, and felt they did it to appeal to westerners.