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

[Kolsykol]

The thing that bothers me about the OP and conversations about this is in general is that I often end up feeling like people aren't listening to what others are saying or are being disingenuous about their own intent.
I am not pointing fingers at anyone in this thread, I just mean in general.
The way that the OP is phrased comes across more like it cares more about taking jabs at the female characters and bosses moreso than it's actually asking for equity, and it's also very insulting and judgey.
The same thing goes for people on Twitter, when people say that '' people just want equity '' and I actually look at what's being said it doesn't seem like it to me.
On the one hand female characters in skimpy outfits are being called '' tawdry and obscene '' but in the next second people want male characters in skimpy outfits?
It sorta comes across to me like people who disrespect women who do sex work but then indulge in it themselves, like clearly you don't respect women like that and do judge them but you're going to engage with their content?
I'd say that's pretty objectifying tbh.

There's a Youtuber I know of who breaks down and critiques character designs in League of Legends and it's a huge problem that I have with his channel too, he often phrases things in a way like '' she has her tits out '' ( in a really negative way ) or calls characters '' Mcbigtits '' etc.
And he very specifically only does this with female characters.
Like does it actually have to be explained why that's bad? I am not saying that it's literally the same equivelant as this, but in essence it's the same thing as calling a woman '' fatso '' and the implications of it is basically '' cover up you *slur* ''.
Would people doing this be okay with people calling women names if they're larger or are muscular etc? I really doubt that, and with some people I know for a fact that they wouldn't.
So why is it okay here?
I mean I'd argue against that conventionally attractive women are '' privileged '' considering how that '' privilege '' often goes hand in hand with unwanted attention and judgemental attitudes, but even if that was true.
Just because it's not '' as bad '' doesn't mean that it isn't still bad or make it okay...
I also think that people tend to assume that a monster is male by default, but the truth is that often times we simply don't know and when it's female then people expect proof of it but not with male monsters.

I can totally respect people for wanting more male fanservice and just wanting more optinos all-around, but at the same time I have a hard time believing that when someone spends 99-100% of the time just complaining about options that they don't like.
I have to question whether it's really true at that point and it also makes it hard for me to side with you even if I agree with that sentiment...
I've noticed this with people giving characters that aren't conventionally attractive praise too, often times a lot of people combine it with straight up insults or indirect insults against characters and women that are.
Why is that necessary? And it just changes things from showing support to certain characters and women to being a jerk.
But for some reason that's just accepted and tolerated behaviour.

Last thing I'll say too is that I don't like how people generalize power fantasies and what is cool or sexy too much either and people trying to be the arbiter of this or read intent into the artists.
A lot of people just assert things about the artists motives based on their own perception of things, people are a lot more nuanced than that and don't like things for a singular reason and the extent to which you may feel certain things about something also vary.
Coolness, badassery and power fantasies aren't mutually exclusive from sexiness or if you want to call it the dreaded '' sexualization '', I mean Shiva clicking her heel when changing phases is really cool and powerful in a feminine way to me but a lot of people won't even notice and some will read negativity into it because '' ermaghurd she's wearing heels muh realism ''.
And I don't think that coolness always has to do with violence or the visual and physical ability to inflict it.
And it can also be about how you inflict it, Ivy in Soul Calibur is a good example of that and how wildly different peoples perceptions of the characters can be.
Not to mention that I don't think that fantasy settings need to be judged based on irl American views on modesty, we're talking about a setting with sexy cat girls and boys walking around. No one in the setting reacts to these designs and characters as unusual.
Just because something is viewed as sexual irl doesn't mean that they are in a fictional setting or to the same extent.

For non-mammals, it is actually strange they have breasts. But well... on the other hand, humans in the game don't have nipples.

That's actually pretty funny xD, I had no idea this was even the case until now.
Shirtless male characters missing nipples is something I've seen in other games too for some reason.

Dont think it's being suggested that they cant have charisma, but charisma is something associated with story and background. A lot of bosses are not going to have this by virtue of them being, well, just a boss. Sophia, as an example, isnt going to really have a ton of time to be charismatic. What dialogue she has is going to be flavor for the encounter to give us a broad idea of what she is. True charisma, like that of Emet Selch or other bosses, takes time to develop.

Which gets back to the primary point - What is being asked for. More or less Male Eye Candy. You get some Charisma in on that, all the better. If it has to be one or the other, though, people are arguing for more skin and sexiness.

I think that this is what some in this thread are asking for, but I don't think that it's what people on Twitter which the OP linked to are asking for.
And as I stated above, in general people spend way more time complaining about female characters showing skin than they do actually asking for more male skin being shown and such.

I think that in general a lot of game developers are afraid of upsetting their male audience many of which are very insecure and homophobia isn't really that uncommon.
So instead of adding more male characters like that they just erase it with the female characters to avoid having to strive more for equal options for everyone.
The mentality in the West especially is basically '' either only the female characters can be sexy or no one can '' ( in general ).
Even sexy male characters in most Western games in particular are still designed to appeal to the stereotypical '' CoD dudebro '', they're still very '' hyper masculine '' super ultra muscular in a way that I think mostly appeals to men.
In FFXIV and Japanese games in general tho a bit more femininity seems to be generally accepted, I don't think that anyone would complain if we got more of it in FFXIV.