Yeah, I seem to be in the minority in that I love the Fending and Maiming sets (even though I don't really play tank or DRG, sadly), but I do agree with the OP that this sort of thing is very annoying. I can in some ways appreciate that they essentially gave us near double the amount of unique gear sets in this raid BUT that doesn't mean it's not bad form to have those sets locked out specific to gender. And particularly with the pieces described by the OP there really is no reason at all for the gender discrepancy as there would be if, for example, the masculine body type variations was shirtless.