Single Sex Races

[Darlan_Ashwood]

Ooo hes hawt too! For a fictional cartoon character that is ;p

Se to me.. that just looks like a human with a rabbit hat on.

[Abriael]

so much furry pride in this thread

[katsujin]

Was bored so created this. Personally don't really care if they add viera or not especially if they add it in an expansion, I won't be starting all over again just to try another race.

[PEANUT]

Agree, OP, succinctly put. IMHO if one finds it "weird" to have a certain type of race with both genders playable, it is probably due to gender stereotypes, homophobia of some sort, and/or sexism.

With Viera as an example: bunny ears are often associated with beautiful, enticing young women that are unashamedly sexually appealing. If one finds that untroubling, but replacing "women" with "men" in that description makes it offensive or "weird", I believe there is a problem. Similarly, making a big, weird looking lizard race male-only sends a negative message that visible, obvious physical strength and being unattractive is only acceptable for males.

Sorry for the mini rant, it is a pet peeve of mine when only female characters are sexy-fied while only male characters are big and unattractive because of such (not) wonderful reasons as: "eww, who wants to look at that" or "dude, that would be so gay". Single gender races are often just an extreme manifestation of this attitude.

I dont know where that stereotype on men even came from? Just go to google and type in male model and theres thousands of pictures of luscious sexy men >