Sunnie22 wrote...
lol.. Well, news flash. Asari are females, says so in the codex, and are refereed to as "she" throughout the entire series. The only reason a couple BW people they keep saying otherwise is to avoid the whole lesbian discussion. In my mind, Asari are a race of space lesbians and it's nothing but hetero male fan service that males get to pseudo interbreed with them. From a realistic evolutionary and biological standpoint, Asari would never consider mating with a male from any mammalian species good idea or even feasible. It would stand to reason that a race of females would be more prone to mate with females from other species more so than males.
You are equating reproductive sex with gender identity to some extent, I think. Asari are reproductively female sexed, but sexually and socially they can be either mothers or fathers, they can assume one of two parenting roles. Some asari might prefer only to father children, other asari might prefer only to carry them. Of course the asari stigma against purebloods makes an asari who prefers to father children at a distinct disadvantage, and would probably be the closest thing the asari have to a concept like "homophobia". In any case, the asari social dynamics would give them some idea of how two-sex species operate, and it would probably make them think of two-gendered species as asari-like, only limited in their reproductive roles. A two-sex species individual can't choose to father one baby, then carry the next, it's always the same individual who fathers the baby or carries it in a two-sex species. Again, because of the asari prejudice against pureblood children and asari-asari pairings in general, there is much more social pressure for the asari to assume a female role in reproduction, something which might make them have a preference for males or females of other species, depending on how the individual asari responds to that social pressure. An asari who would rather play the father role in reproduction might be drawn to females of other species, while one who embraces the mother role might be more drawn to males. Though of course from a reproductive standpoint both types of asari are limited to the mother role. Socially, though, I could see preferences like that.
And that dynamic would be especially true regarding humans, I think, since humans are definitely the most asari-like aliens we've seen in the ME-universe. I wouldn't be at all surprised to learn the humans were cultivated from asari base stock by whichever race left the Consort's trinket and the sphere on Eletania, both of which we presume to be the work of the Protheans currently, but may actually have been done by another species altogether. After all, somebody encased the Charon Relay in rock, that means somebody didn't want mass effect travel to the Sol system to be possible. And the asari were the first race to find the Citadel. The asari were first, and humans were last—and in fact they didn't arrive on the scene until AFTER the scheduled Reaper invasion was supposed to occur. If humanity hadn't found and used the Charon Relay at exactly that time in history, if they had waited a couple hundred years later, they would have emerged into the galaxy just after a Reaper cycle, and would have had 50,000 years to use the Citadel and build up galactic technology, rather than the relatively smaller amount of time that the asari had and that other species in previous Reaper Cycles had. Perhaps the Protheans felt that a two-sexed asari variant without natural biotic ability, walled into a backwater star system via an encased mass relay, would take much longer to reach the stars than the asari would. It could have been a brilliant plan on the Protheans' (or whoever's) part, perhaps a "Plan B" for the Ilos Contingency, if you will.
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