What a mess. If we are supposed to take the screenshot comments as representative, then the only dumb ones are the "is that supposed to be a man" and the "metrosexual" one. Where have those two been?
It's criticism of the perceived ridiculousness of the design, is what it looks like to me. We don't have reason to suppose there is subtext in enough posters that they are reflexively reacting to non-Straight Boys Club depictions of men (it must be so that essentially, men are cool, the women are cute/sexy/hot), though obviously since the forum is big enough and we get all sorts of posters here some people will think like that. I don't at all object that strongly to the design beyond it just looking unbelievable, not so much for contextual stuff like the differing treatment of the sexes. As the author briefly points out, Final Fantasy has been pretty friendly with pretty boys. If the world is internally consistent (other characters designed like that, MC is from a certain climate, etc) then whatever