Avoidance of traditional male and female
Square Enix clearly and deliberately avoided using the terms ‘male’ and ‘female,’ despite still locking jobs like Bard and Dancer to male or female characters.
In the screenshot below, you can see that they substituted ‘male fighter’ and ‘female fighter’ with the more neutral term ‘recruit’.
When clicked, the ‘Recruit’ button now displays a pool of 15 characters at once instead of the previous one-by-one navigation. This is a great quality-of-life improvement in the remaster. However, it also highlights how much Square Enix was concerned with hiding terms like “male” and “female.
