LilyasAvalon wrote...
CovertMcAnonymous wrote...
People saying that only having female humans and quarians get screentime while over a dozen different races (I'm counting 14 right now) exist, all with males, isn't sexist are being foolish. Of course it's sexist, wouldn't you find it outrageous if we'd seen female humans, quarians, elcor, volus, batarians, krogan, rachni(?), yagh, hanar(?), salarians, vorcha and drell, but only male humans and quarians? Of course, and Fox would've probably **** a brick with some hairbrained logic because female dominance is so foreign to most humans worldwide.
But it wasn't intentional sexism. Probably. More likely subconcious. Either that or evil marketing, take your pick.
Then it's also naive and just plain paranoia to claim that the female aliens were left out of the previous games because of such MEDIEVAL thinking as 'Women don't belong in space'. Believe it or not, it IS actually as simple as 'They didn't have the money or resources to include two models for the same species'.
Batarians, drell, yagh, vorcha, elcor, volus, salarians, krogan are ALL examples of species that either do NOT have a strong role or the females are PURPOSELY rare. Salarians and Krograns have small amounts of females in their species for fertility reasons. Batarians are a closed off species. Drell and yagh are pretty much going extinct.
Hanar are based off jellyfish, which are majoritly, if not ALL, asexual. And rachni are based off ants, which are majorily female with only a few males for mating or defence.
If it was sexism, why inlcude female quarians or humans in the first place? Why give the option of FEMALE Shepard? Why bother including the writing or programing for love interests for a female Shepard?
Did I light your hair on fire or something? Calm down.
I'm not suggesting "omg teh womenz no belong in teh space@!", but rather your exact logic; With limited resources, models were produced for males for every species, while females had much fewer, almost as an afterthought.
If they really had only the resources for one model per race in some cases, why are all races guaranteed males? Shouldn't there be some races where only a female model was made? Turians, batarians, vorcha (Who are supposed to breed like rats; All of whom we see, though, are portrayed as male), volus, elcor, salarians, krogan & drell are all races where, according to your hypothesis, they only had resources for one gender. So why did male take priority over female?
There is no race with only female gendered aliens and no male. If it really was just limited resources and complete fairness, Bioware would have said "Look, if we can only make one sex for most of our aliens, we should split it up pretty evenly." Instead, as lopsided as you can get, as the only aliens with definate females shown are Quarians (Not even sure if Rachni aren't asexual; The term "Queen" could very well just signify the leader of the hive mind, just as Asari are referred to as "her" for appearing female to humans/quarians while they're actually "it").
I'd assume they stuck with males because there'd be lots of fighting, and big, muscly male aliens are cooler than wimpy little females. Really, all of ME's aliens think like humans, except the Reapers, which are Eldritch Abominations, after all. Notice how there apparently isn't a race where females are stronger than males? Apparently Garrus is larger than female Turians (Reach, lawl), Krogan males are certainly larger, humans of course, Quarian males are taller and have more upper body strength, and I'll bet Salarian females will be scrawny even for Salarians. Batarian women would probably follow the human models, as well as Drell (Plus the Hanar chose Thane to become a tool of war, which suggests male Drell have more physical prowess. Besides that they're identical in body shape to humans, once again).
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