The tawdry female bosses are tiresome, and we could do with more male fanservice.

[Iscah]

As another post said, developers design women and give us the ability to customise female characters to a much broader level of expression. This we cannot doubt and there is nothing wrong with this broad scope. But if we turn that perspective onto male personas, there is a limitation in expression from the view of developer design. As many have already said, there is something missing with our male counterparts. A lacking.

I missed the post you're referring to (and the thread is too long to go searching for it) but if you're talking about this game specifically then I feel like there's more variety to the character designs for male characters - both in faces and body shapes - and while "lack of male glamour" seems to be a running talking point around here it seems to be partly about personal taste and a narrow definition of masculine clothing.

That said, there are differences in what the genders are given to wear that run along the same lines as the discussion over bosses. If outfits have gendered differences or counterparts, women get more revealing outfits and men get fully-covered ones. While it doesn't affect every gear piece, when it does it reinforces those stereotypes of how each gender "should" dress (or perhaps how it's expected that players will want to dress their characters).

It's frustrating when you want to go against that stereotype - in my case, mostly wanting to keep my female mage in less revealing outfits.