Why have my women been replaced with females?

Pokémon Black and White are officially out! My copy will be arriving tomorrow or the next day, and after that, I'll be doing daily updates of how virtual life is going. I can't wait!

I've been playing Final Fantasy: 4 Heroes of Light for the past several days. I stopped right before the boss in Arbor and then had to make my way down out of the dungeon (tree-geon, since I was in a tree?) and get some fire-based weapons, since I'd forgotten them. Then, I was able to get to the snowy land up north on our map, hatched a dragon, and got really freaking annoyed that I had to play a math minigame over and over and over and over-- you can see where this is going-- until I was able to get the Beastmaster crown. ARGH! After a brief time with Jusqua again, sailing the oceans blue, I'm back with Yunita, trying to level her up into something useful, which is a trial.

One thing that really bugs me about 4 Heroes of Light: so, it's supposed to be a throwback to earlier games. Limited pack space, spells that you don't just learn without having the actual book for it, etc. But do the female characters have to be such twits? Aire is a princess. If she wasn't weaker than the other characters, I honestly would be angry, because she hasn't ever had to deal with that thing before. But Yunita is supposed to be Aire's bodyguard, and everyone ends up taking care of her because she's so completely hopeless. She should be stronger than she is, or at least more capable, and she isn't. So our two character models for women are this: a whiny, bratty, incredibly weak and spoiled princess, or a fretful, weak, annoying guard who couldn't distinguish her ass from a hole in the ground and who the other characters keep leaving because she's so annoying. The two male characters are annoying too, but at least they're capable and annoying.

...What? Seriously? NO decent female characters? What about FFX-2?! What about FFXIII? WHERE DID THE DECENT FEMALE CHARACTERS GO?! Why can't be throwback have updated female character roles?

*sigh*

At least Pokémon lets me choose my gender, and it doesn't affect anything in-game.