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[Lee80]

 

South Park tried to warn us of the danger of such thinking.  Why didn't any of you listen? 

[Farangbaa]

But that's because you're a traitor to your own species.

Well, that's a new one. I've heard I'm a traitor to my race before, and to my country, but the whole species, that's definetly new

[Seboist]

You don't need to be a feminist to see that his statement is utter crap. Even better... what about gay couples who adopted a baby?

 

No, this is just an archaic viewpoint.

 

I don't particularly care what gay couples do one way or another.

 

 

Or that women whom either don't want or can't have children are by implication not "proper women." 

 

I wouldn't settle down with either of those, but they still have their... uses.

[RZIBARA]

okay, when I posted in this thread originally, I didnt see the pictures. Now that I have seen them:

 

****  the mass effect community, that **** is ****** disgusting!

[Heimdall]

No

 

Just no.  Please... 

[DaemionMoadrin]

Yeah, that is exactly what the game says.

They do some genetic shuffling when they reproduce, which isn't a strange thing. Humans do it too.

Oh and eh, fixed

 

No, I meant phenotype. They do look differently (some are purple). Their DNA doesn't change, they just activate different genes within it. Each Asari inherits 100% of the DNA of her mother, who got it from her mother and so on. If you compare the first Asari after the Prothean engineering with a newly born Asari from the same lineage today, then their DNA will be virtually indistinguishable.

 

They have no other source for fresh genetic material, which means the entire species is stagnating. Parthogenesis works for simple organisms but something as complex as mammals (or whatever Asari are) can't reproduce that way.

 

There is no recombination of DNA happening, they just shuffle what they have around and pretend it's something new. What happens during conception is that some recessive traits become dominant and vice versa. Randomly. While there may be trillions of viable combinations (depending on how many chromosomes Asari have) they aren't really evolving anymore. At best they have the weaker strains dying out without replenishing the gene pool. Their partners are completely irrelevant and can be replaced with technology.

[Chealec]

And you'd be guessing wrong.

 

I know 5 7 gay couples personally (actually I know 7, I was only thinking about male gay couples, but I also have 2 female cousins who're both lesbian and both have a girlfriend), 3 of them are married and 1 of them have adopted children.

 

Being in my mid-twenties I have many friends who got married. My girlfriend and I are in no rush to get married though (being a liberal atheist I see absolutely no point in marriage).

 

 

Your turn.

 

Oki - perhaps there's some other social difference then, I know very few couples that fit into anything much like "traditional" male/female roles in their relationships... more like partnerships than anything else, perhaps because most couples I know both work, perhaps because they are mostly from "alternative" lifestyles anyway (Goths, bikers) - but straight or LGBT I don't think I know any "housewives" or "hi honey, I'm home" type men.

[KaiserShep]

That's rather idealistic, given how different people's aptitudes for different things are. The father might be the more nurturing one, and therefore better suited to being with the kids. The mother might be more ambitious/intelligent/etc and able to earn a better wage than the man. There's also the fact that some jobs are so crappily paid that neither parent has the option to stay at home.

Also sucks to be you if your mother is a nightmare and she's the one you get to be stuck with as a kid. Arguably people like that shouldn't be having kids in the first place, but unfortunately they do. Pretty much throws any kind of optimal arrangement out the window.

I'm not sure how serious you are with this comment, but I figured I'd hedge my bets and reply anyway.

Heck both my parents worked long hours, because one does not simply serve the role of housewife in an expensive frakkin' city. And who the hell wants to stay home all day every day? That's some bantha poodoo right there.

[Stanry Roo]

Welcome to BSN where the likes don't matter and anecdotal experiences = fact for everything else. 

[KaiserShep]

Welcome to BSN where the likes don't matter and anecdotal experiences = fact for everything else.

Isn't that the Internet in general?

[The Heretic of Time]

Oki - perhaps there's some other social difference then, I know very few couples that fit into anything much like "traditional" male/female roles in their relationships... more like partnerships than anything else, perhaps because most couples I know both work, perhaps because they are mostly from "alternative" lifestyles anyway (Goths, bikers) - but straight or LGBT I don't think I know any "housewives" or "hi honey, I'm home" type men.

 

"Traditional" doesn't just mean stay-at-home moms and dads whom work over-hours. Marriages where the woman only works part-time and takes time off when she gets children to raise them while the man works full-time is what I consider traditional as well and yes, many of my friends, including my gay friends, have a relationship or marriage like that.

[Seboist]

Well aren't you merciful? 

 

Sure am, the girls I've been with think I'm generous too.

[The Hierophant]

Nah. No thanks.