Dancer was a lot of fun in XI, kind of a jack of all trades, buffs, debuffs, healing, DPS, tanking, stunning. There were better jobs at all of those things individually, but few, if any, that could do all of them at once. It would be interesting to see how they would implement the job in XIV. As for the gender thing, yeah, both males and females could be dancers in XI, in Tactics I believe that it was females were dancers and males were bards? Correct me if I'm wrong, it's been a long time. Since there's already a bard in the game, and both genders can be one, I don't think that'll be the way it goes haha.