That's a disingenuous take, seeing as the part you're responding to is how IV continuously gives male characters/NPCs the Luke Skywalker treatment while the reverse is incredibly rare. About the only time I can recall even something like that remotely happening was in D3 with the dandy merc; there is a snide attitude here that the others don't carry. I wouldn't even have said anything about it if it felt like there was some balanced approach to it. Dark Souls felt balanced in the way it treated every person in that miserable world like shit, here it feels slanted.
Well, lets go over them to see if your right, of the main characters.
Lorath starts the game as a pessimistic asshole, but ultimately still committed to humanity, a sort of "to the bitter end" old fart, who knows Sanctuary is fucked, but is going to go through the fight anyways, he proceeds to regain his faith in the fight completely by the end of the campaign.
Donan Starts the campaign as a fat old loser who ran from the fight, watches his Son get piloted by a Demon, and then re-commits to the fight and dies brave and true to try and do what he can.
Vigo is a somewhat minor male character who literally chooses to pilot the iron maiden Mech to save you and Neyrelle and then dies a badass
Elias is the main human villain and he's pretty adamant about his commitment to helping Lilith, even up to his death he basically flips the bird and says he'd do it again, because its the only option humanity has, and ultimately he's right (until a Mcguffin is introduced later)
And Rathma, who dies before the start of the story, knows he's going to die, knows how everything is going to play out and just submits, a man who unfortunately has a deterministic reality since he knows the future.
in the Expac we get Uru and Urivar, Uru is a fucktard who gets lead around by his nose by Mephisto and like everyone else who has been targeted by Mephisto, is forced into two impossible choices that Mephisto's option is always the winning one, which has been a theme with Mephisto since the very start of the lore, books especially.
Urivar is a nutter who is, like all the nutters, is completely right but cannot convince saner people of it, and cannot gel with less extreme measures because everything is fucked, so he rubs up against the person who can slaughter him, as it goes.
Not really seeing the "every male gets treated like shit" here.
