Quote Originally Posted by Aelin_Ashryver View Post
So much attacking of this friend for not being a fan of the more feminine aesthetic. What's wrong with y'all?
Hmm. Designer who genderlocks class in RPG - e.g. healer female characters only - if more likely to be the... just that? Person with that sort of opinion. Feminine aesthetic < masculine/neutral aesthetic. Of course I do not have any ironclad evidence, other than we are imperfect human being with our biases and those biases colour whole bunch of stuff for us.

FFXIV community is lovely and tolerant and all that nonsense. I am not even the kind of fem!boy glammer some of my friends are, mad respect to them btw, but there is some fragile sensibilities walking around too. E.g. when it come to masculine characters showing even little bit of skin (coliseum set for DPS, republican steel speedos).

Female character bikini tank is so normal sight to us all, yet people writhe and coil in horror whenever male character of any job with exactly same amount of clothing armoring passes by?? If anything, this I find kinda banal in our community.

Some fun topical pictures:

My former static was confused, bemused and amused by my barbarian aesthetic glam. Question about shirt was made. While our AST looked like that. No one had commented on her glam.


We have glamour system. It can make your character look unique and intereting, in best case scenario. Grab pictured glamour from here


Bikini tank male version.