And I find many of my friends and people I talk to can’t stand the feminine aesthetic. See how hyperbole works? Look around this thread my dude. The aesthetic is the #1 complaint by a significant margin. I’m hardly the only one. And no, a character who looks like he belongs more on queer eye for the straight guy than Married with children is NOT what I would call manly. The opposite. It’s ok to care about your looks and take care of yourself, but that doesn’t mean hair highlights, painted nails, painted on facial hair, and an outfit even stewie griffin wouldn’t wear in his fantasies.
Also, are you defending skinny jeans and that outfit as manly? Would you wear that outfit out in public? Wear that outfit out to the bar, a frat house, or a strip club and see how many women you go home with. Spoiler alert: zero. He looks like he’s more concerned with the nightclub with his boyfriend after the adventure than the actual adventure.
There is literally nothing manly about that picture at all, and anyone who says otherwise is simply in denial about the obvious. Proving my other point about ff14 having, by far, the most thin skinned community in any mmorpg.
That adventurer looks like he’d be defeated by any boss who stops and sings “Nnst Nnst Nnst Nnst Nnst” rhythmically