Women and Armor!

[HakuroDK]

Meanwhile, dragoon armor has women's stomach exposed. Why? What is that even for?

Good question! Why is that?

[Remilia_Nightfall]

Good question! Why is that?

[Amused]

Meanwhile, dragoon armor has women's stomach exposed. Why? What is that even for?

Meanwhile, dragoon armor has massive spikes all over it. Why? What is that even for?

[Xhominid]

This topic just keeps exploding with more and more stupidity at random bursts...

[saber_alter]

Meanwhile, dragoon armor has women's stomach exposed. Why? What is that even for?

seemed like a good idea at the time.

[Arkine]

Why you funpires gotta be such killjoys? Let the thread die.

[Fyrebrand]

The odd thing is, the male dragoon armor and the female dragoon armor are nearly identical. The only obvious difference is the female one has the belly part missing. Why even do that? I mean, I'm not that naive, I know why they did it -- but it seems so random and pointless, almost even mean-spirited toward females. It's like the designer actually thought about throwing gals a bone, and giving them the sensible armor guys get, for a change. But then at the last minute they realized the females weren't meeting their "sexy quota" so they just lazily deleted that one bit of texture over the middle. Look, you can even see where it connects to the rest of the armor. The borders around it are the same for the male and female.

If both male and female armor had the belly exposed like that, people would be laughing at how silly dragoons look. It would not be a big debate. Everyone would be pointing out how stupid that was. But because it's just females who have it done to them, it's considered "normal" and anyone who talks about it is considered some kind of radical nutcase just looking for something to complain about.

And again, I want to point out that I am not saying sexy, skimpy, skin-exposing outfits should be off the table. But it's supposed to be the same armor the male and female are both wearing! In this case, it would have been so easy to just give players the option of what they want cut out of their gear or not. We have the option to display or hide headwear. We can use /visor on some helmets to adjust how open it is. Why not a similar type of option on other select bits of armor? Like, for this middle section of the dragoon chestpiece, it would be extremely simple to just have a Display/Hide toggle in the character window. That way, anyone can have it, if that's their thing -- but it's not forcing anyone.

[Amused]

The odd thing is, the male dragoon armor and the female dragoon armor are nearly identical. The only obvious difference is the female one has the belly part missing. Why even do that? I mean, I'm not that naive, I know why they did it -- but it seems so random and pointless, almost even mean-spirited toward females.

You're going all out with the trolling now, eh?

I'm not taking the bait.

[HakuroDK]

You're going all out with the trolling now, eh?

I'm not taking the bait.

I wouldn't call it trolling.

According to the urban dictionary (one of the few sources that has a definition not related to fishing):

Being a prick on the internet because you can. Typically unleashing one or more cynical or sarcastic remarks on an innocent by-stander, because it's the internet and, hey, you can.
Guy: "I just found the coolest ninja pencil in existence."
Other Guy: "I just found the most retarded thread in existence."

(source)

Fyrebrand's argument is valid and isn't at all a troll. It's a bit of an overreaction to call it "mean-spirited", sure, but it's certainly a valid question as to why, exactly, there is a belly part missing from the DRG armor.