Quote Originally Posted by SturmChurro View Post
How exactly is it a gender stereotype when the vii have multiple different viera with completely different personalities. Some are fighters some aren't, like real life. Christ almighty. Everyone has to be offended.
It's a stereotype based on female beauty standards in at least two realms of the globe: Asian and Western continents. And yes, it is offensive when vii/viera are supposed to be darker-skinned, very strong and independent female warriors. We only had one "dark" skinned female NPC in pretty much the entire SHB storyline, and she wasn't even as dark as the viera in XII where Vii/Viera were inspired from (based on SE comments). Not only that, but they gave female viera the OK because scantily clad women with bunny ears (ahem, playboy bunny and such) but heaven forbid if men can be scantily clad with bunny ears.




Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
I'm not interested in dimorphism for the sake of dimorphism. I'm even less interested in male viera being hijacked by those who want to take a stand against gender stereotypes. I'm generally not a fan of real world issues being projected onto the game in general, though - especially when it boasts players from all over the world and from many different cultures; some of which aren't all that invested in 'outrage culture' to begin with.
It's not so much about taking a stand against gender stereotypes, it's more about diversity. If we want to see more than just "hyur with animal features," then certain things like dimorphism should be shaken up to make a race more unique. And, unfortunately for you, Theo, RL issues are definitely in the game - and that's excluding the gender stereotypes I mentioned above. They have homosexuality present in the game (not just marriages for PCs, but gay NPCs as well). They have a theory that parallels some of our current issues (not social) as presented in SHB but I won't digress because spoilers. They have social caste issues between the poor and the 1%. You'd have to be pretty blind to not see that FF covers various topics that are relevant to every day life. All of their games reflect some issue that's happening in the real world. Just look at FF9 - great example.