Gender locked race?

[Roda]

True, female rabbits are larger than males. Though if we're drawing a direct comparison to rabbits, then the females should be the ones the rest of us have to be afraid of, not the males. Males rabbits tend to live apart from other males, but are also much friendlier than their female counterparts and make better pets while females tend to be more aggressive (I speak as someone who actually had rabbits growing up. The males were always very sweet, the females would always bite and claw at me)

Considering the male viera are the more aggressive of the two based on what lore we know, we can't say that they also won't be larger just because female rabbits are larger than males.

Hoo boy.

1. The females should be the ones the rest of us are afraid of. One guy with a stick with no back up is not nearly as threatening as an entire squad of highly coordinated warriors with forged weaponry.
2. These are people, not recently domesticated prey animals being tamed for handling by a separate, much larger species of caregiver.
3. Anecdotal evidence is anecdotal, but from what I recall of rabbit keeping, they both can be fairly aggressive (in different displays) until neutering/spaying, especially if you don't handle them enough and they go feral.
4. The poster I quoted said they were going to be larger because they were based on a specific animal.
5. The animals we were discussing were hares, not rabbits.

I've already made my case as to why I think the males should not be larger many many pages back. I'm too lazy to find it, and waaaaay to lazy to type it out again.
But I don't agree that they should CTRL+C CTRL+V one animal, but go with a multitude of different inspirations from nature to realize the male counterparts
1. Smaller, sleek, and stealthy. Bulk is bad in a jungle.
2. Colorful. They're sapient so they can cover up vibrant colors with clothing, but using color displays like in birds of paradise would be an amazing contrast to the females more muted colors.
3. High heels because, don't be cowards SE. (but also because changing the foot anatomy based on sexual dimorphism would be just too much change to make sense for me)