Quote Originally Posted by Iscah View Post
That's the opposite of what he's saying.

The first part of the statement is about human culture. Humans have a concept of male and female as children and have different expectations placed on them depending on whether they are a boy or a girl.



Viera do not have that "big influence" because they have no concept of boys and girls. The rest of the statement is vague but it seems simple enough to me that would mean that they're not raised with the concept. They're not preparing some children to be future warders and some to be future villagers, they just treat them all the same.
Except all Viera are eventually divided into warders and villagers, not due to skill or aptitude, but due to biological gender. This means it is gender essentialism, and an arbitrary one.

Hence my comment that it's not actually that different between the "human example" Matsuno gave and the Viera example. Humans may have different expectations of male and female children, but these expectations are arbitrary, and have very little to do with actual biology. And in modern society (and definitely in Eorzea), there is a drive towards examining those expectations and allowing for greater crossover.

Viera may not have the arbitrary expectation between children, but they demonstrably have them between adults. So either Matsuno is saying "Humans and Viera are the same in having weird expectations between male and female", or he's saying "Humans and Viera are different, because Humans try to look past biological (and assigned) gender, while Viera keep strictly to them". But the way he phrased it seems to wobble between the two.