#they are supposed to be a fully agender egalitarian asexual specties

Does anyone else ever think about how strange it is that a galactic community ruled by

a monogendered race
an asexual race organized by matriarchal clans
an egalitarian race that doesn’t care if you’re male or female

supposedly came up with a very human-like misogynistic culture complete with gentlemen’s clubs and sexist comments (but only to Femshep) and rampant objectification of the asari? Like, isn’t it silly that the galaxy’s supposed culturally dominant race doesn’t actually dictate the cultural norms and instead is misunderstood and diminished for being more open about their sexuality? THAT’S NOT HOW CULTURAL IMPERIALISM WORKS GDI.

Asari attitudes towards sex (and most other things) should be the standard in Citadel space… but no, Bioware wanted sexy babes but also didn’t want to give them any actual power, so we get this weird universe with a race that’s simultaneously discriminated against while supposedly dominating in culture and philosophy. How even does that happen.

#*mic drop*#*slow clap*#THIS #THIS SO FREAKING MUCH #I AM STILL PISSED OFF AT THE ASARI BULLSHIT BIOWARE PULL OF #THEY ARE SUPPOSED TO BE A FULLY AGENDER EGALITARIAN ASEXUAL SPECTIES #yes the entire structure of the universe in mass effect CATER TO MALE HUMAN PATRIARCHAL SOCIETY #WHICH MAKES ZERO SENSE #one of the many reason i gave up on this show #why do the asari even have BOOBS #they are considered the 'MOST BEAUTIFUL SPECIES' and as such look like what? a blue playmate? that's ridiculous #it implies that the universe - even long before human appeared - had the same singular idea of beauty #i just #EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS GAME MAKES ME ANGRY #BUT NOTHING QUITE AS MUCH AS THE ASARI ISSUE #the asari make zero sense #the concept of them is brilliant #genderle #like I'm all for genderless long lived species that don't reproduce sexually and have no concept of heteronormativity #except this wasn't what they were at all #they were the walking boobs that will have sex with everyone #like you're explained that they are not female or male and don't identify as either and don't reproduce sexually #THEN WHY DO THEY HAVE BOOBS #WHY ALL THE PRONOUNS USED FOR THEM ARE FEMININE #WHY ARE THEY JUST USED AS SEXY LADIES TROPE #*headdesk*#mass effect is so bad world building wise idek what to say about it #this entire game is like a big 'you tried'#except it failed #as far as good SF goes