The Character Romance thread (Official)

Sex is different from gender:

Asari are an all female race (sex, which means they have a vagina with an uterus, a cloaca like birds or whatever other female reproductive system that allows them to give birth to their daughters).


Genderwise they theoretically shouldn't identify as anything because their society does not have gender roles to which they should adapt (mannerisms, social position, job opportunities...etc), as they are all the same. This said, it doesn't mean they would not all share common traits of mannerisms and identity and from what we have seen, even in the asari homeworld, where the influence of other species should be very limited, all the asarí not only are biologically female and look female, they also identify (pronouns) and act like female members of our species, that makes them women.

At the end of the day, the idiot who wrote the asari lore had to be either drunk or is an ignorant who does not understand the complexities of gender identity vs biological sex. That is why no matter how much they retcon their lore or try to explain them in every game it always sounds like bollocks to so many people. To me personally, the asari are just a misogynistic vision of a male fantasy about what women should be: exotic, magical, bisexual, eternally young, with perfect blue/purple bodies and they even enjoy being go go dancers for the pleasure of everyone (no female turian or krogan gogo dancers with skimpy clothes yet and of course, not males of any species,only asari and female humans) and with an appalling perception and respect for personal space.

Sorry if it sounds like a rant. I was hoping the asari were going to stay in the Milky Way and we could forget about them. I find them stupid as a concept and unoriginal as a design, instead they left behind other races more interesting like quarians, drell, batarians, hanar, elcor, even volus are more interesting than them... so disappointing.

On topic, I can't believe that now Jaal might not be bi... this game is starting to get on my nerves! Lol