From a post I made about 9 months ago: A post in thanks to Bioware for FemShep.
Being a fan of the Mass Effect soundtrack, I've been playing it in the car. My 6 year old enjoys it as well, and I've been telling her a bit about the story (no mean feat, by the way, telling a G rated version of ME at 6:30 in the morning before my tea). I then looked up the intro to ME1 on YouTube to show her. The video I found showed FemShep. She was excited as she watched the ship fly past Jupiter and Neptune, and asked about the people she saw. Then the camera swung around to show Shepard's face. I watched my daughter's eyes go wide as she exclaimed, "She's the hero? She looks so tough. I want to be tough like her. She's AWSOME!" I realized that I'd inadvertantly introduced a different concept of a hero to her via FemShep. She's tough and smart. She goes on exciting missions and stops the bad guys. She's the one doing the saving, rather then being saved.
It will be years (like a decade or more) before my daughter will play the Mass Effect series. But when I see the effect that even that simple image of FemShep had, it reminded me that even just the idea of a female hero can be inspiring.
So thank you to Bioware for FemShep.
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Modifié par Sbri, 06 février 2012 - 06:12 .