Stop FFXIV Gender Inequality!

[Arkenne]

Raubahn uses a manly skirt, for it anyone forgot
(1k Allied Seals Tank top at the Immortal Flames)

[Valensia]

This is such a silly thread. The again, most things on these forums are quite silly.

[Laerune]

This is such a silly thread. The again, most things on these forums are quite silly.

How is it silly to ask for equality in content? When the players with female characters asked for the same thing, it was not called silly, yet this is?

I hope SE starts releasing only new haircuts for male Roegadyn, then we shall see how silly it is when 95% of the forum lurkers come here to complain that its not fair.

[Niwashi]

- Plain long skirt
- Healer and Caster skirt's from WoD.
These all tend to be more aimed at females, but it's possible for males to equip them as well = Gender Inequality, my fluffy tail.

Sure, there's lots of gear that can be worn by both genders. What relevance could that possibly have? The point is that there is also other gear that cannot, and that's where the inequality lies.

Merely imagining males in a Bunny suit is enough to scar me for life.

No more so than seeing females in it would scar the rest of the audience.

The gaming industry is mainly comprised of heterosexual males, so it is no big surprise!

Twenty to thirty years ago that statement would have actually been true. These days it's not. Players are about 50/50 between men and women. (The action, first-person shooter, and sports game genres do still have a significant male majority, but RPGs don't.)

If you want dresses and skirts that much, more than what's already in game... why not just roll a female character, or fantasia into one?

Though not as relevant to the dresses that have also been brought up, in the case of the bunny outfits, it's because the design of the outfit is supposed to look sexy. You can't accomplish that if you have to switch genders. Most people can only find one gender sexy, so if a "sexy" outfit is released, but not on the gender that's capable of actually looking sexy, it's going to frustrate people.

We all read what happend when the community tought Setzer was male only. We got a 20+ pages about how its unfair that female dont get that outfit.

To be fair, I didn't see a single post in that thread that said only the Setzer outfit should be made unisex and not the bunny outfit. There was more focus on the Setzer outfit because it's the nice one, but pretty much everyone who mentioned both seemed to think they should both be unisex or have equivalent versions for both sexes.

I honestly want to ask a single question to all of those who support this: Do you think this will even be used by alot of people to justify making them unisex across the board?

In the case of the female only dresses, no, which is why those don't really bother me. In fact, making them available to both genders wouldn't in fact be all that equivalent, because they'd have a very different effect on each. Females would wear the dress to look pretty, while males would wear it to look funny.

In the case of the bunny outfit, though, I do think it would get worn as much by males as females, because it's the same effect for both. Chippendale bunny boys are every bit as appropriate as Playboy bunny girls. (There could be some doubt whether either one is appropriate, but if SE has already decided to introduce the one, then they should be willing to introduce the other as well.)

[Shaezerus]

I just want to rock out and bust some heads while looking like a complete doofus, wearing my snake helmet and fishnet thigh-highs.

[Oce]

As has already been stated a couple times, "just roll female" is a really cheap, stupid response. If you want to play a male and wear sexy/cute (what YOU think is sexy/cute) clothes, then rolling female completely kills that. If guys are going to get offended because male avatars are walking around in a video game dressed like chippendales stars, they should probably log off for a while and reassess their insecurities about their own sexuality.

[DarkStaoneDragon]

you got your same sex marriage system, and guys can wear skirts and make up... there's your equality. just stop I don't want FFXIV ARR to be known as the homosexual MMORPG..

[Shaezerus]

just stop I don't want FFXIV ARR to be known as the homosexual MMORPG..

What does that have to do with anything?

[DarkStaoneDragon]

What does that have to do with anything?

if you don't like what I have to say you can goto my profile and click ignore, now as far as what you said, people has been told about the brest cancer awareness month, and even a player that lost their battle to cancer "leave real world stuff out of the game" that can go for this too, homosexuality is a real world thing, so leave it out, I'm not attacking anyone just giving my honest view in the situation, I hope a mod/admin/gm closes this thread.

[Ymal]

???

But this doesn't just have to do with homosexuality though?? It's equality for gear... not sexuality...

Just because some people want their pixelated character to wear a dress doesn't have to make it gay unless you see it that way?

Edit I also just realized you said to let homosexuality out of this game but


they are quite a few gay couples and innuendos in this game already, without anyone being able to do anything about it.