Whats with the chemist obsession?

[MirronTulaxia]

Then I wouldn't really use it as an example to prove a point if you don't even agree to it, especially when it's a false stereotype.
Besides, there's nothing feminine about taking care of people. It's a job that requires professionalism and precision since people's lives are at your hand. Something Chemist should be, yes. Not because it's somehow "feminine" due to a stereotype.

I don't have to agree with a stereotype to point out how society thinks about matters. That's a really strange standard to apply to stereotypes.

And I wouldn't call White Mage or the others "feminine" either, yet here we are.

[dinnertime]

I don't have to agree with a stereotype to point out how society thinks about matters. That's a really strange standard to apply to stereotypes.

And I wouldn't call White Mage or the others "feminine" either, yet here we are.

You don't, but I really wouldn't use it to point that Chemist could fit in the other healers that way, which is what you actually did. It sounds ignorant.

[MirronTulaxia]

You don't, but I really wouldn't use it to point that Chemist could fit in the other healers that way, which is what you actually did. It sounds ignorant.

My point is that Chemist is not inherently going to be noticeably different from existing healers. Not in terms of armor, not in terms of the aesthetics of their animation, etc.

And you're taking a lot of umbrage at the fact that Western society has stereotypes about certain occupations. Pointing that out isn't the same as endorsing it.