Male Viera names?

[YianKutku]

Some extra info from Matsuno's twitter came up in the male Viera thread. It DOES confirm that male and females can't be told apart until puberty, and that includes their... primary sexual characteristics, it seems.

Of note:



It fuels the "share naming conventions between the genders" theory; although males that get taken by a mentor could still get another name for their training and to further differentiate them.

I've read the answer to the second question four times and I still don't know what it's trying to say.

Taking it at face value, it seems like Matsuno is saying "they have a different set of norms". Which is both very obvious and completely facile to observe. Two families living as neighbours can have different norms when it comes to gender environments. What is more interesting is what happens when someone doesn't fit into the rigid box, and Matsuno has apparently deliberately decided not to answer that part of the question, hiding behind cultural essentialism.