The Demonologist wrote...
In all honesty, I believe they were made with the whole 'swings both ways blue alien chick' mentality in mind.
Modifié par RinpocheSchnozberry, 19 avril 2010 - 05:45 .
Garuda One wrote...
-notices its a 3month old post-
Why?! -wipes hands on Rinpoche's shirt-
yorkj86 wrote...
I'm cautious about all of this because we have no indication of how much the Asari have felt compelled to adopt the binary-sex classification used by other species due to translators and simply co-existing with them.
ImperialOperative wrote...
Tirigon wrote...
Being mono-gendered is actually a great advantage. You would have no suppression of gays for example...
You fool, the concept of "gay" wouldn't exist.
RinpocheSchnozberry wrote...
Garuda One wrote...
-notices its a 3month old post-
Why?! -wipes hands on Rinpoche's shirt-
That's not a shirt, that's my sweat matted chest hair.
pat.jontan wrote...
I'm suppressed
Vladivindel wrote...
I have done extensive research on gender in social culture and in video games. The Asari acording to lore have what can only be described medically as a "Selectivly transmorphic suedo male hermaphriditism with testosterone immunity"
yorkj86 wrote...
Darkhour wrote...
In a universe where very single other species recognizes them as female it would be seen as culturally delusional to try and keep up a presense of being non-gendered.
They are unique and defy classification.
If you'd like to brave the cries of "cultural relativism", then you'd need to assert and prove the way in which their insistence of being mono-gendered is in some way detrimental to themselves and to others. Lastly, it would have to be convincing to the Asari, who as we know, sometimes aren't open to radical social change, as the bartender on Illium tells us.
Darkhour wrote...
yorkj86 wrote...
Darkhour wrote...
In a universe where very single other species recognizes them as female it would be seen as culturally delusional to try and keep up a presense of being non-gendered.
They are unique and defy classification.
If you'd like to brave the cries of "cultural relativism", then you'd need to assert and prove the way in which their insistence of being mono-gendered is in some way detrimental to themselves and to others. Lastly, it would have to be convincing to the Asari, who as we know, sometimes aren't open to radical social change, as the bartender on Illium tells us.
No they don't defy classification. The universe has already classified them as female. Mono-gendered means one-gendered.
vhatever wrote...
Darkhour wrote...
yorkj86 wrote...
Darkhour wrote...
In a universe where very single other species recognizes them as female it would be seen as culturally delusional to try and keep up a presense of being non-gendered.
They are unique and defy classification.
If you'd like to brave the cries of "cultural relativism", then you'd need to assert and prove the way in which their insistence of being mono-gendered is in some way detrimental to themselves and to others. Lastly, it would have to be convincing to the Asari, who as we know, sometimes aren't open to radical social change, as the bartender on Illium tells us.
No they don't defy classification. The universe has already classified them as female. Mono-gendered means one-gendered.
There is no such thing as a "mono-gender" anything. It's like a negative zero.
Havokk7 wrote...
I think you are anthropomorphising. Asari are *alien*. Biological and social rules from this planet just don't apply to them.
None of the words "she" and "he" and "masculine" and "feminine" are correct.
Asari are "it", if anything, though there isn't a word in English that really describes what they are.
Because they have bumps on their chests we use the words "she" and "daughter" and "feminine" even though those words don't accurately describe the situation.
When we meet real aliens, I suspect we are going to have to invent a lot of new language to deal with them.
Darkhour wrote...
yorkj86 wrote...
Darkhour wrote...
In a universe where very single other species recognizes them as female it would be seen as culturally delusional to try and keep up a presense of being non-gendered.
They are unique and defy classification.
If you'd like to brave the cries of "cultural relativism", then you'd need to assert and prove the way in which their insistence of being mono-gendered is in some way detrimental to themselves and to others. Lastly, it would have to be convincing to the Asari, who as we know, sometimes aren't open to radical social change, as the bartender on Illium tells us.
No they don't defy classification. The universe has already classified them as female. Mono-gendered means one-gendered. That gender is female.
Siansonea II wrote...
Asari conceive and bear young and suckle them. They are females. Just because they are the most powerful species in the Universe does not make them somehow 'male'. You can try to lawyer them into a 'hermaphrodite' label if you want, but they are women. They do not impregnate each other with penises. Get over this dead-horse argument already.
Tirigon wrote...
Siansonea II wrote...
Asari conceive and bear young and suckle them. They are females. Just because they are the most powerful species in the Universe does not make them somehow 'male'. You can try to lawyer them into a 'hermaphrodite' label if you want, but they are women. They do not impregnate each other with penises. Get over this dead-horse argument already.
Liara says she is not really female. Considering she´s an asari she probably knows better than you.
Siansonea II wrote...
Actually, she says she's not exactly a woman. There is a difference. The asari, not having males, lack a concept for men and women, and assigned gender roles. They are simply asari. They are all capable of bearing and suckling young, so they are females. No amount of lawyering is going to get around that, folks.
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