Actually, among prominent named characters there seems to be a great number of non-white people.
Caucasian
Default Shepard
Miranda
Hackett
Joker
Zaeed?
Cpt. Bailey
Illusive Man
Jack
Non-White
Ashley
Kaiden
Anderson
Udina?
Jacob
Kasumi Goto
Steve Cortez
James Vega
Traynor
Kai Leng
I don't really agree with the idea of doing it for the sake of doing it.
It's the military. It's a predominantly male field. It always has been, and it likely always will be. The reason? Not nearly as many women join the military as much as men do. Hence, you're more likely to get high ranking men than you are women.
It seems like false egalitarianism and inclusiveness to put so many women at so many levels. It's arbitrary.
I cannot agree with this enough, (Is this topic still about whether or not women should be forced into positions? I'll pretend that it is, so that im not late to the party.)
Do not ask developers to put things in simply to satisfy the smallest niche of the fan base. Ask yourself TC what does the story gain from forcing such a character into the game? What is she doing that a man couldn't do? or a robot, if there isn't a clear answer let it be left up to the writers to decide who is what, and why. This game has to appeal to every region it might be sold in, not just American. The fact that you got to play a Female Soldier has highly decorated as Shepard is groundbreaking to begin with, as until recently in real life Women weren't even allowed into certain branches of the military, hell some couldn't even get jobs in highly physical demanding jobs like Fire Fighter, or Construction (usually because of physical requirements being harder to obtain for women sue to size and strength.)
Besides BioWare has a nice track record of strong female characters throughout their library, i think they know what they are doing when it comes to story and people need to remember that, one game's ending does not undo all the games they've made where gender wasn't what decided who was capable of what. Flemeth is a powerful female character and she garners respect everytime she appears in a DA Game. Liara is the top of field in knowledge on the Protheans, a highly regarded Scientist, Master Biotic, and becomes the Shadow Broker a woman who commands legions of spies, and could humble most worlds with but few well places favors.
BioWare will do what they think is necessary to make the kind of story they want to tell, trust in the developers to write the story that brought you to love their games in the first place.
Actually, among prominent named characters there seems to be a great number of non-white people.
Caucasian
Default Shepard
Miranda
Hackett
Joker
Zaeed?
Cpt. Bailey
Illusive Man
Jack
Non-White
Ashley
Kaiden
Anderson
Udina?
Jacob
Kasumi Goto
Steve Cortez
James Vega
Traynor
Kai Leng
Udina and Ashley are most definitely Caucasian and Alenko is an Ukrainian surname, so I count him as caucasian to.
With that said there's still a large quantity of slightly less important bust still prominent npc's that are white, Jenkins, Chakwas, Dr Michel, Wilson, General Petrovsky, Engineer Adams, Navigator Pressly, Donnely, Daniels, Kelly Chambers, Major Coats, Henry Lawson, etc.
What is the race issue is doing on this topic about high ranked women?
I'm glad that ME series is so diverse, who cares about more white, more blacks, more yellow as far as they are a bit of everybody???? Seriously? As reminder Kaiden is from Canada in the game.
About the topic itself i support the idea of high ranked woman in ME:A at 200%
Well, that's still a long way from the current make up of Earth, let alone the likely future make up of earth based on current trends. Particularly since you're using a rather broad definition of non-white
Broad definition? I didn't realise there are different levels of non-whiteness, I assumed that you are either white or you aren't. My bad, must be my white privilege showing. I should really check it.
I'd guess that Kaidan is bi-racial, idk about Ashley really, she can be bi-racial as well or then white. Zaeed's name suggest that he isn't white to me. Anyways I think race isn't big concept in time of ME when most of humans are mix of races and ethnicities and there is alien species around to be racist over..
Broad definition? I didn't realise there are different levels of non-whiteness, I assumed that you are either white or you aren't. My bad, must be my white privilege showing. I should really check it.
Yeah, funny how this happened.
They are what? Not a different world? Not a different time? Not a fictional version of a non U.S. affiliated military?But they are,
I can bring myself to face that, sure, with the stipulation that it's more influenced by Canadian culture than it is American, and that it can be highly influenced by contemporary culture while leaving the writers free to make pretty much any adjustments they please, because of the handy fact that it's a science fiction story taking place far in the future. They could have instead written a post apocalyptic story where women are back to being chattel, or they could have written a story where--due to a severe underpopulation issue--women are legally required to strive to have children every several years.because the writers whether deliberate or not were based by real-life militaries when they wrote the Systems Alliance navy and the people that serve in it. Just have to face it that Mass Effect is highly influenced by contemporary western society,just as how most of character in Mass Effect are caucasian the vast majority of Generals and high ranking politcians are going to be male.
Are people now saying prostitutes are unrealistic or something?
Are people now saying prostitutes are unrealistic or something?
I'm not saying your definition is wrong. It's entirely subjective and different cultures and different people define things differently
They can do anything they please, even have human culture magically locked in a state of permastasis between 2015 and 2186 CE. They didn't though, they wrote a story where gender standards have changed within the context of the universe. What OP is asking for, is that what we observe in the game matches their own lore.
But is that really so, or is that just what you want to believe? You're putting it like Bioware is breaking their lore by not having any high ranking females prominently featured yet, as I pointed out earlier the vast majority of military characters in Mass Effect are male, when it comes to named characters though, there are proportionally more female characters than male characters, that flag-ranked female characters are not often featured is just a consequence of the military being still a very male-dominated field.
But is that really so, or is that just what you want to believe? You're putting it like Bioware is breaking their lore by not having any high ranking females prominently featured yet, as I pointed out earlier the vast majority of military characters in Mass Effect are male, when it comes to named characters though, there are proportionally more female characters than male characters, that flag-ranked female characters are not often featured is just a consequence of the military being still a very male-dominated field.
If there's 3 admirals/generals in the game and 1 of them is a woman, yeah -- that would seem like crazy social justice warrior token women added to the game because women in those roles would be overrepresented by ~5x as I mentioned earlier.
If anything, it seems like women are already overrepresented in Mass Effect admirals/generals as-is with 1-2 of several of them being women.
Looks like what Bioware needs now is more MALE generals and admirals and fewer high ranked women, if it changes gender dynamics at all.
Ahh it would be neat as hell if they include a very important female general only to make her screw the strategy so bad that got half of the men under her command killed.
Then in a random conversation when you walk around her base you hear one of her commander commenting "Damned gender quotas!"
I would probably laugh for an entire year.
Ehh a man can dream.....
Ahh it would be neat as hell if they include a very important female general only to make her screw the strategy so bad that got half of the men under her command killed.
Then in a random conversation when you walk around her base you hear one of her commander commenting "Damned gender quotas!"
I would probably laugh for an entire year.
Ehh a man can dream.....
What would her gender have to do with the incompetence however? As far as I know, a penis isn't used in the formulation of tactics or strategy.
What would her gender have to do with the incompetence however? As far as I know, a penis isn't used in the formulation of tactics or strategy.
Just to make people mad. 
simple as it is. I could ask the same question why more vagina is advocated in the formulation of tactics and strategy?
The entire gender issue is simply ridiculous.
I only support this if the high ranking women are white. But identify as black men. But at the same time, they're still totally chicks. Or they're not. Used to be. They're totally dudes now. And then they're all bisexual, that way either male or female protagonists can romance them.
I also want a trans krogan squadmate who identifies a female salarian-turian hybrid. Or something. I don't know. He'll still have a quad. I think.
I only support this if the high ranking women are white. But identify as black men. But at the same time, they're still totally chicks. Or they're not. Used to be. They're totally dudes now. And then they're all bisexual, that way either male or female protagonists can romance them.
I also want a trans krogan squadmate who identifies a female salarian-turian hybrid. Or something. I don't know. He'll still have a quad. I think.
I feel offended you didn't include Vorche, Quarian and Geth. You are racist and you should feel bad.
I feel offended you didn't include Vorche, Quarian and Geth. You are racist and you should feel bad.
Pre-order cancelled if I don't get my trans-Geth romance with pink lights and armor. 
ohhh man!
Just to make people mad.
The entire gender issue is simply ridiculous.
It's not. So why do you care if an admiral or general is a woman?
Why do you care if it is a woman?
Why do you care if it is a woman?
People are saying prominently displayed street prostitutes are unrealistic. And they are. If ME has legal prostitution - and seeing the Consort, they might - then you'd find brothels (which are infinitely safer for the men and women working). And if it was illegal - in hives of villany - you'd also see brothels. Street prostitution is a function of a very particular kind of social/economic environment, and in particular poverty and criminalisation of prostitution.
Well, I have a CNN article here that indicates around ~7% of the generals/admirals in the US military are women. So... out of 10 admirals/generals in Mass Effect, if we're going to go by the way things are IRL in the US military, less than 1 in 10 of them should be women.
That's not zero, but it's close enough to zero that Bioware could easily write a story featuring 3-5 generals/admirals while having all of them be male, and this scenario would be fairly realistic by current military standards in the USA.
Source: http://www.cnn.com/2...ance/index.html
So if Bioware made a game where there were 3 generals and one of them was a woman like the SJWs want... that would probably seem like they put her there just because she's a woman, because that would be a situation where ~33% of in game generals are women, while in real life only ~7% of generals are women. So women would be overrepresented in that case by a factor of ~5x!
So for there to be 2-3 generals/admirals present in Mass Effect and that they're all males... that's actually a very likely outcome in terms of the gender statistics for the military.
Looks like the facts don't match your social justice warrior feminist pipe dream!
Fun fact: The US Navy has more admirals than ships.
If we want to go the realism route, we should have to deal with a bloated bureaucracy that has admirals all over the Citadel filing paperwork, attending meetings, and hanging around waiting to see Sha'ira.
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