Final Fantasy XIV Hot Takes

[Kolsykol]

Women tend to look good even if they wear gear that leans more towards the masculine side.
When men wear feminine clothing, it doesn't look right, at least to me anyway. Probably because a lot of feminine clothing are built around and compliment the female form.

If you ask me why, I wouldn't really be able to tell you. Women just pull off a wider range of clothing, feminine & masculine, better.
I'm not saying men shouldn't wear feminine clothing if that's what they want to do. Men can wear feminine clothing if they want and there's no problem with it. I guess this is just another one of my hot takes.

It depends a bit on the clothing but generally speaking I agree with you.
However I also think this has significantly more to do with the fact that we're not used to seeing men in feminine clothing and I also think that feminine fashion looks way better and is A LOT more varied and diverse.
I mean if you go back and look at a lot of clothes historically that men used to wear it often looks effeminate but used to be considered very manly.
These things obviously changes.

My overall point tho is that I feel like normally what ends up happening is that feminine fashion tends to get limited or even be non-existent in games because of this and I think it's sad and annoying.
And I also think that people should relax and not flip the hell out when they get something different every once in a while.
If you play a male character it shouldn't really be a big deal if you got one skirt per expansion it's not worth flipping out about and there are people who enjoy it too.
Not everything needs to be designed for male characters first and then just thrown unto female characters but that's how it tends to work.

In New World it was so bad female characters actually had bulges because that's how little effort they put into female characters ( and they had a ton of titles with the wrong gender ).
I think both that female characters shouldn't be an afterthought and also that people should widen their horizons a little on what men can wear.
I mean look at kilts and Roman soldiers ( Romans not necessarily skirts, but it looks like a skirt in armor ).
A lot of this is in peoples heads and how they've been socialized, I think you definitely can make a lot of this stuff work for men too the problem is a lot of people are very resistant to anything that on first impression they think is '' weird ''.
If they managed to get past that initial reaction tho they might actually end up liking it.
Roman and Ancient Greek soldiers are some of the coolest soldiers in history imo, but they essentially look like they're wearing skirts lol, that's not even getting into a lot of their other clothes that are sorta like dresses in a sense too.
It's really no different even if people think of it as different.