Where is FFXIV headed in terms of sexism?

[Abriael]

As others have pointed out, males are stereotyped just as much -- being forced to wear the big, thick muscles and wide, powerful shoulders.

Funny you'd say this, as we have both midlanders and highlanders, and midlanders are very mild in their phisique compared to most games.

At least in Final Fantasy XIV i don't have to play as an ape with his hands bigger than his head and his chest larger than his height like I do in Tera.

I'll agree on this point, but I'm not touching what you said after that with a ten foot pole.

When I was considering doing video game art design, I went for an open house. I was literally the only female there. THE ONLY FEMALE THERE. Granted, this was seven years ago when I was first applying to colleges. Trends could be steadily changing.

That's not unlikely. Females are much rarer than males in the game industry, but that's not normally because they're not accepted, just because that's a line of work in which they're (normally) less interested in.

But I would say that if you were to look for data on the percentage of females that try for the game industry and manage, and compare it with the percentage of males, you'd be surprised.

the "girl in the shop!!!" effect is still quite powerful, even now that ladies are becoming a much normal sight in development teams and as gaming journos.