Gil Brodie - Chief Engineer (Official Thread)

All they ever complain about is accidentally flirting with a guy and screaming FOUL. haha

You must never have played SWTOR. The straight romances are thrown down your throat. For your Jedi consular, your padawan is barely an adult and she marries you after three ambiguous flirts and just being nice to her. 

As for the straight ones complaining, I didn't mean now because, yes, all they care about are animations and Cora looking not to their standards. I meant in the past... with Kaiden, Dorian, Bull... as if there wasn't warning with the flirt options. They have always acted as if they had some gay-scare. 

Wait people were surprised when you flirted with Iron Bull and he took you up on it? Hell I was just thankful he finally did...most of the flirts even after being in a relationship are ignored by the big lummox.

Sigh. I've had this conversation many times, but... in this instance I was talking about their features, as I was also commenting on the features of the male asari fan art. I personally see the features of the asari as fairly gender neutral. 

Here for example...



If you ignore the boob armor (ugh) I feel like her appearance is fairly gender neutral. Obviously folks can disagree about how much or how little because it's purely subjective. 

As for the pole-dancing, et al, people love to bring that up, and I totally get it, but I don't have a problem with asari choosing to pole dance because not all asari choose to pole-dance. Some asari choose to become scientists like Liara; others join merc groups like the young asari talking to her salarian friend on Ilium. Just like humans, they make choices. 

As for how they are presented... the asari start out as sexy space babes but become more gender neutral throughout the trilogy (rightfully so). In ME1 most are wearing sexy dresses, but by the time we get to ME3 we see asari wearing a variety of clothing choices. They are voiced by female voice actors, but some make an effort to pitch their voices lower (like Liara's father). They have breasts because they presumably nurse their young. Of course, the breasts were there initially for sex appeal for the straight male gamer, but it's not the sort of thing you could just do away with from game to game. 

EDIT: Here's another I always felt looked fairly androgynous:

Oh and I would just like to point out that dancing on poles is NOT female exclusive

Oh you mean like I literally had to NOT talk to Liara and Ash in ME1 and no female in ME2 because it was otherwise almost impossible to avoid the hetero romances? And then they add a male that kind of sort of almost barely maybe flirts with a male pc and oh boy, that's a big nono and totally gay agenda down their throat...
You are trying to point out that maybe peope like that have a reason or maybe the whole thing is not so cut and dry. Problem is they have no reason, it's just homophobic ignorance and hysteria at the slightest sign a male has flirted with them.
And no, comparing the complaints about Cora's face or whatever (or Cassandra's looks for that matter) with the "Anders/Kaidan almost jumped me - they're so predatory" mantras (parroted over and over and over and over and over and over again... and then again) does not work. They're 2 different issues.
So while you trying to be the devil's advocate might have some merit, you're kind of comparing apples and oranges with some issues.

Wait wait... is this confirmed? Is this in game? I want... I NEED!!!

Or something like this... [2 guys in shorts, might be nsfw for the super prude)



GIMME!!!!! 

I'm... not saying that at all... actually.   I don't know what else to say except that I humbly ask you to read my post again.

*and refer to themselves with male pronouns and are voiced by guys and have big swingin' dicks. But it's not gay content.

This is becoming hurtful on account of my own identity so I'll leave off it. It's all good.

Hey no worries, I got way too into the discussion LOL I still hold to my side of the argument, but like I said, it's all good. 

This one is pretty cute too.