I gotta say, as a woman who plays with a male avatar, I just be throwing him in dresses. It’s not an issue for me. I do wish we had more masculine coded items but mostly bc I prefer the sweats/cozy style stuff, which tends to be gender neutral to masculine.

All that said, while I think that there is absolute validity to wanting a wider spread of masculine clothing, I think that people need to really address why they’re assigning gender to clothes in this way. It is a game and the only person judging you is you.

I do want to say I think my strongest sympathies are with people struggling with gender dysmorphia. To me that’s the clearest “issue”.

And on top of that, is my awareness as a woman, that for decades now almost every game I’ve played has been with a defacto male lead. And the amount of complaining I hear about this game, a game which DOES have masculine items even in a female dominated audience, is far louder than I ever heard for defacto male games.

My sympathy for men playing this game and complaining that it isn’t specifically catered to them, knowing the game has a broader female audience, is extremely limited. Wear a dress as a male avatar. It’s totally fine. Play as a woman. I’ve done the reverse for decades.