So I’d understand why the asari wouldn’t have gendered anything on their own, but you think that once they saw other races, at least some would choose to present as male. Every asari in the three games is presented as female, and I think it shows a super simple understanding of gender and lack of imagination.

It’s really kinda boring that every asari would choose to be female, especially since I’m sure each individual has their own preferences and attractions. I’m realizing how shallow Mass Effect’s politics are, and how much broader their world could have been, instead of reducing each alien race into Roman wannabes, sexy blue ladies, and the lizard proletariat.

TLDR: No male asari feels like trans erasure.

    • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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      3 years ago

      His husband dies right at the beginning of the game

      Wasn't it something like six months to a year earlier? It happened during the collector raid on Horizon.

      • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        There's a conversation with Cortez quite early in the game with him talking about the anniversary of his husband's death, I can't remember the exact timeline but I'm sure there's at least a year gap between 2 and 3. disregard this, I just looked it up and there's a six month jump from the 2's last DLC, and the start of 3.

        • KobaCumTribute [she/her]
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          3 years ago

          I feel like there's some timeline weirdness, or maybe ME2 including its DLC plus whatever dicking around the crew did after that before everyone went their separate ways and Shepard and Joker turned themselves in to the Alliance military lasted several more months after the raid on Horizon, because I'd have sworn Shepard was in custody for only half a year or so.

          Although the timeline seems weird in general, like all of your old crew seems way more settled in and established than if it had only been six months or even a year, like Jack ending up an instructor at that school or Garrus ending up as an advisor to the Turian leadership with his own taskforce, etc.

          • WittyProfileName2 [she/her]
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            3 years ago

            Even the jump between ME2's intro and the start of the game proper feels weird. Like over the course of two years Garrus not only founds a vigilante organisation but then promptly loses them all in a siege, for example.

    • RangeFourHarry [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      Wait it’s Cortex? I’ve been assuming it was james the whole time lol.

      I could be underestimating the mood in the late aughts, since I was a literal middle schooler, but it moreso seems like it wasn’t even a concern instead of an intentional omission.