Yeah. Like Auron. Auron is probably the most masculine character in a squaresoft game ever. Ever.
All the rest...let's review, shall we?
Up to FF6: Sprite based...kinda hard to tell...uhhh...yeah.
FF7: Cloud could've passed for a girl even WITHOUT dressing up as one, (I still get nightmares from the whole Honey Bee Inn bit...), Barrett was a man. Vincent looked sort of girly, but he was cool. RedXIII was a dog. He doesn't count.
FF8: Squall was angsty and girly looking. Zell was whiny and annoying. Irvine was ALMOST cool, even if a bit girly looking, until you found out he had no nerve. Seifer wasn't so girly.
FF9: ...Yeah...uhhh...I'm not even gonna touch this one. All the male characters were girly. Steiner had mascara on. I thought Zidane was a girl for most of the game. I'm told that Kuja actually WAS a woman in the Japanese version. I haven't varified that, though.
FFX: Tidus was pretty girly. Yep. No doubt about that. Wakka was...Wakka. And Auron was a man. Kimahri never really talked, so...
So. Yeah. Square has trouble with making masculine male characters.