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(12-21-2014, 10:35 AM)Seriphyn Wrote:I don't quite agree with this sentiment, because as someone attracted to males as well as females, I find the males just as much fanservice as anything else. Tall, broad shouldered, muscular, narrow-waisted with strong thighs. Yeah, the males are fucking sexy 'pretty' too.(12-21-2014, 03:17 AM)Aya Wrote: I'm really not a fan of sexual dimorphism when it seems to mainly exist to avoid making an "unattractive" female version, and I feel like that's what we're looking at here. I also am not inspired by the idea of the race itself. So, overall, I'll give a resounding "meh". Don't think I'll ever make one :-]
Yes, the size difference between male and female is bloody disgraceful, I don't know how they think they can so blatantly get away with being so obvious that the females are clearly fan service. All other races are similarly proportioned, except Au Ra.
I doubt I'll have much interest RPing with Au Ra, except for the men maybe. I will not be able to shake the feeling that someone playing a female Au Ra is only doing so "because they're pretty". IC this might be justified by the fact Kale will despise "bloody foreigners" or what have you. I also bet there's going to be freaking Eorzeanborn Au Ra, because someone's going to go "Meh lore, I love this race OOC, I love this class OOC, I'm going to make it work". It's not impossible, but it's going to be equivalent to someone from Imperial China being born in 1500s Europe. Very strange.
As for not shaking the feeling that someone is playing a female Au Ra is doing so because they're pretty...uh. Exactly how is that anyone's business but that of the player's? Hell more than half the reason I rolled Highlander was because I liked the body.
I can see the merit of the sexual dismorphism argument. It made me tilt my head as well, then I realized, "Eh, maybe they wanted to go with the small and pretty vs big and mean thikng. Maybe that's going to be a part of the race that I don't know anything about yet. Maybe they were lazy after all but wow look at everything else!"
As for crying doom and gloom and predicting all the BADTHINGS roleplayers are going to do...masssiiiiivvvveee waste of energy. Better to just focus on your little sphere and see how thing are going to go forward. Goodness knows, none of us are infallible.
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