sagequeen wrote...
And may I point out, muscles do not a soldier make. There are many guys with big muscles who cannot do a thing with them and many a woman who is deceptively slender who could break a person in half. Just check out the CrossFit challenges for women who can benchpress more than a guy's bodyweight. They are rarely bulky.
That sentence is a gross oversimplification with many inaccuracies. Larger muscles tend to be stronger than smaller ones, due to having more muscle fibers which can exert more force. Of course, there are other factors that go into play when it comes to strength, but you can't just dismiss muscle size.
At any rate, I don't expect Shepard (regardless of sex) to be bulging with muscles. What I do expect, is for him or her to at least look capable of doing the things ascribed to them.
That said, bird like arms and a giraffe neck aren't physical qualities one would expect to find in an elite combat soldier.
You were just saying maleshep looks like a tough, been-through-hell guy, but femshep looks like she stepped off a runway (looks like a model) so you can't take her seriously. I concluded that you felt she could not be taken seriously because she looked like a model. I then pointed out that Sheploo looks like a model. He looks like he's been through hell, but he looks like a mode who has been through hell. I was suggesting that femshep could also look like a model who is a soldier and gone through hell.
FemShep looks like a model because she wears makeup, is unaccountably skinny, and is very attractive. MaleShep looks like a model, but only because he's good looking....but as I mentioned before, being good looking is irrelevent, because many soldiers are handsome.
But what you're saying is you can take model-soldiers seriously if they're male models? So we can only take a soldier seriously if they are male?
I do hope I'm misunderstanding that.
There is no getting around the sex issue, because while men today serve (and have always served) in the same capacity that Shepard does in the ME Universe (an elite combat soldier), women don't. Therefore, it makes it difficult (at least for me) to imagine a woman that would be capable of doing those things.
And Bioware makes it even harder by giving FemShep a much weaker and smaller looking frame than her male counterpart.
FemShep, as Jamie pointed out, just clicked for a lot of us fans. The voice acting, the writing, the fact that she's a soldier first and isn't defined by her gender somehow just came together to create this powerhouse of an action hero. It's not what everyone likes, but to those of us here, It just clicked.
It's great that you and many of the others in this thread love FemShep. Personally though, I can't get into playing her due to aforementioned reasons.
Modifié par Unbannable, 27 janvier 2012 - 07:16 .
Would have done differently if you had time for another playthrough?
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