I'll get started quickly. I want to bring up bias criticism female characters always get while their male counterparts don't receive.
I'll start with Venat and emet. Venat receive widespread criticism about her actions, many saying its evil, they say what she did is wrong and so on. Some compare it to emet. But some reason emet gets praised by the community while venat got so much hate. People praise emet even though he's genocidal but scorn venat for doing something slightly similar in a way. Both did damage on a cosmic scale in the ffxiv universe. I can't help but feel people are hating venat because she's a woman. Venat gets called a monster, evil and manipulative but emet gets sympathy and treated as sympathetic and tragic and gets loved. I feel its a huge gender bias. Often when female characters has to make a harsh decision shes treated as manipulative, arrogant and playing God and I feel thats happened with venat...
Next is G'raha and Y'shtola. G'raha is able to be silly and cute and the community praises it and even askes for more but when development allowed y'shtola to do cute things like falling asleep reading and summoning that water sprite, many people criticized her for it, to the point development said they will no longer do that with her character anymore. Both these characters are extremely intelligent but only one is able to be silly and loved for it which is the male. This is when I started to think there is a really large bias with the ffxiv.
Another is Ryne/ Gaia and haurchefant. Everybody accepts haurchefant is bisexual but so many people refuse to accept ryne and Gaia are lesbian. Many people also accept g'raha is also bisexual. So why is it only the female characters that get denied but everybody openly accepts the males sexuality? I think its few reasons. Because they're women and I believe it disturbs male fantasies. If ryne and Gaia are lesbian it means theyre not dateable for men which mean they can no longer fantasize about them. This is a known habit of a lot of men that play video games, not all but many do and lastly its just the simple bias of the community of prefering male characters.
In stormblood, though it was before I started the game. I've learned the english speaking community was extremely harsh against lyse and criticized characters like yugiri by calling her weak and stupid because she tried to take down zenos but couldn't but say no such thing about gosetsu. Lyse received exteme hate but notice how this almost never happens to male characters even if badly written.
Last character I want to speak about is sphene. I found out many English speaking players hated her. During our heart to heart talk with her I found many english streamers clips telling her to shut up and just skipping her scene. There were post saying shes a terrible character and shes useless. Notice how she gets hate for trying to he helpful and having heart to heart with our WoL but when g'raha does it everybody loves it. I also found tweets from even women saying "SE has to dress sphene up like a thot to get people to like her lol" and the post had a good amount of likes and agreement. Her outfit isnt even erotic and even if it is. Why is it that estinien can do push ups shirtless while sweating and everybody is so excited and praising it but sphene changes outfits and she gets called demeaning names? One can only conclude its because sphene is a woman and graha and estinien are men. All 3 are very well written character but only one is criticized unfairly. Why?
There are other female characters I want to bring up that have a male counterpart but I believe I made my point clear and I don't want to make a long post and having to check if everything is written ok.
I understand not everybody will agree and think my conclusions are far off base. But this is my personal conclusion on the matter.
Male characters in popularity polls are consistently the highest while female characters almost never top the charts. So I believe the community coddled and forgives the short comings of male characters while being overly harsh and unfair to the female characters.
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I'll start with Venat and emet. Venat receive widespread criticism about her actions, many saying its evil, they say what she did is wrong and so on. Some compare it to emet. But some reason emet gets praised by the community while venat got so much hate. People praise emet even though he's genocidal but scorn venat for doing something slightly similar in a way. Both did damage on a cosmic scale in the ffxiv universe. I can't help but feel people are hating venat because she's a woman. Venat gets called a monster, evil and manipulative but emet gets sympathy and treated as sympathetic and tragic and gets loved. I feel its a huge gender bias. Often when female characters has to make a harsh decision shes treated as manipulative, arrogant and playing God and I feel thats happened with venat...
Next is G'raha and Y'shtola. G'raha is able to be silly and cute and the community praises it and even askes for more but when development allowed y'shtola to do cute things like falling asleep reading and summoning that water sprite, many people criticized her for it, to the point development said they will no longer do that with her character anymore. Both these characters are extremely intelligent but only one is able to be silly and loved for it which is the male. This is when I started to think there is a really large bias with the ffxiv.
Another is Ryne/ Gaia and haurchefant. Everybody accepts haurchefant is bisexual but so many people refuse to accept ryne and Gaia are lesbian. Many people also accept g'raha is also bisexual. So why is it only the female characters that get denied but everybody openly accepts the males sexuality? I think its few reasons. Because they're women and I believe it disturbs male fantasies. If ryne and Gaia are lesbian it means theyre not dateable for men which mean they can no longer fantasize about them. This is a known habit of a lot of men that play video games, not all but many do and lastly its just the simple bias of the community of prefering male characters.
In stormblood, though it was before I started the game. I've learned the english speaking community was extremely harsh against lyse and criticized characters like yugiri by calling her weak and stupid because she tried to take down zenos but couldn't but say no such thing about gosetsu. Lyse received exteme hate but notice how this almost never happens to male characters even if badly written.
Last character I want to speak about is sphene. I found out many English speaking players hated her. During our heart to heart talk with her I found many english streamers clips telling her to shut up and just skipping her scene. There were post saying shes a terrible character and shes useless. Notice how she gets hate for trying to he helpful and having heart to heart with our WoL but when g'raha does it everybody loves it. I also found tweets from even women saying "SE has to dress sphene up like a thot to get people to like her lol" and the post had a good amount of likes and agreement. Her outfit isnt even erotic and even if it is. Why is it that estinien can do push ups shirtless while sweating and everybody is so excited and praising it but sphene changes outfits and she gets called demeaning names? One can only conclude its because sphene is a woman and graha and estinien are men. All 3 are very well written character but only one is criticized unfairly. Why?
There are other female characters I want to bring up that have a male counterpart but I believe I made my point clear and I don't want to make a long post and having to check if everything is written ok.
I understand not everybody will agree and think my conclusions are far off base. But this is my personal conclusion on the matter.
Male characters in popularity polls are consistently the highest while female characters almost never top the charts. So I believe the community coddled and forgives the short comings of male characters while being overly harsh and unfair to the female characters.
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