What they mean by "change the damage calculations of tanks"?

[Syzygian]

Have you read the tank threads where everyone is up in arms about STR gear and how tanks must wear vit!

GAWD CAN THIS LINE OF THINKING PLEASE DIE SLOWLY AND NEVER EVER EVER COME BACK.

"Oh look that tank's wearing STR gear, s/he obviously can't be anything but an unspeakable BADASS and a great player! Yup, prolly world first, that guy! I wonder if he's related to Xeno!?"

"PSH this dumbass tank is wearing VIT gear, we're all doomed to wipe 'cause s/he clearly has NO idea how to play their job or what any of their abilities do or how to tank! *abandons duty*"

Its this ludicrous, toxic school of thought that a cancerously large chunk of the community has clanging around in their heads that, I'm hoping, SE's adjustments will rid us of once and for all. -inb4 "oh, this guy just wants tanks to do 400 DPS and sit there like scrubs" -feel free to stalk my lodestone and see that I'm never wearing fending gear. I love tanking. I love DPS. I don't love this idiotic, borderline-caste system based on what GEAR you CLICKED onto your CHARACTER SHEET.

Edit for additional impact:
No other job-type in the game has this degree of a "Gear=Skill" mindset. Only in the tanking community, right here.

I doubt I should respond to a post with an amazing statement like that in it but what the hell.

If you actually have a reasonable level of toughness and cooldown management, then your healers can DPS. Fun fact, Healers can do tons of damage, significantly more than the difference between your tank stance and your balls-out-man-mode-dps-Dps-DPS!!!! lack of tank stance, if you can be a good tank and afford them that luxury. It's also safer, which is a word i like to translate into 'more likely to get my loot and less likely to wipe'.

Also "some of us actually want to push our play and skill to the max and not be carebears." sounds like WoW kid talk for video games is my life and I don't know how to be nice to others.

Healers play their jobs within ridiculous shackles because of the current tanking meta. Its considered ACCEPTABLE for a WHM to pull 100DPS or LESS in most raids. -_- And they're just resigned to it. I constantly ask my healers "Do I need to put some melds back on? We're good on DPS..." and they're like "No no... its fine..." ...I'll never even try healing in this game because holy shit. O.O