So andromeda initiative is all about girlpower?

Presenting all story from a position that tries too hard to be neutral on everything really wouldn't tell a very good story in my opinion.

Let's be real here.  To some people a woman so much as existing in a position of authority is preaching, or LGBT people existing at all for that matter.  I think it's a bit of a reach to draw up a straw man argument declaring Bioware's intentions and then be upset about that straw man all before the game is even out.

I have to say that I don't mind women being on top every so often.

It's one of my favorite positions. Better view.

Probably, but I reckoned that picking a conservative option would limit arguing about who qualifies.  

(Also, "at least x out of y" is tougher maths)

Not really, look at school, university and college graduates (mostly women, especially at university/college level!), look at who's homeless more, who dies on the job more, who holds the more dangerous jobs (coal miners, sewer cleaners etc.), who controls most of the money (note: It's not men (in most cases!), just like men in relationships don't decide if the house is bought or not, that's why real estate agents sucker up to women more!)), who gets support left an right (domestic violence shelters for example seldom take men, despite figures showing that men are victims just as much as women (!) - don't believe me? Look it up yourself, so you can't say I doctored the statistic or only looked at statistics that confirm my POV (so no confirmation bias!)), who gets more money spent on their healthcare (example: Cancer research, more money is spent ond breat cancer research despite the fact that most women survive that - unlike prostate cancer in men!), who lives longer, who can ruin the other more easily (a woman just has to cry "rape!" and the man is ruined, even if he gets off in court (as the specter of suspicion will cling to him like the color of his skin!)), the draft (only for men!), war deaths (mostly men!), assault victims, people who get murdered (mostly men!) etc. etc. etc. (just a small number of the overwhelming number of examples!)

Most men aren't well off (no, don't start with any patriarchy arguments, how it hurts men, too or some such tripe - there is not patriarchy, money and fame that's what's dominating (and newsflash: Women can have shitloads of money, too - look at Hillary Clinton, she's fucking rich, as is for example Condoleza Rice and both are powerful women!)) and laws are in favor of women in most cases (especially in family/divorce court, but also laws concerning discrimination (men can in most cases not even take advantage of those laws!)...then there's the fact that women (even if you account for age, race, background etc.) receive lesser court sentences (or even get away without punishment if they only turn on the waterworks and find a sympathetic judge or if they have kids - "Can't lock up a mother" (they don't say that about dads, do they?))

Also: It's not about the inclusion of women, hell it's not even about the inclusion of 50% women - it's about women running almost everything in the A.I. (from leadership to security to colonial administration!)

If there were some men up there, then many people would not be concerned - but this way people are, just like they would have been concerned with an all female Council (or only female admirals in the Alliance Navy (which had some, which was damned great - I loved Spacer-Shepard's mother for example, captain and later admiral in the Alliance Navy! - but it was not totally dominated by them to the exclusion of male admirals!)) in the old trilogy (!)

As for your parting shot: If you make a TV show with only men in charge and with women being shown as incompetent morrons (or damsels in distress) who need their men to keep them in line and prevent disaster all the time - guess who would want that show to be cancelled ASAP? If you said: Feminists, then you are right, but if you do this to men (many modern movies do, look at that all female Ghostbusters-Team!) it's ok because men are supposed to just take it quietly, like a good self-sacrificing man? Think again! I for one will not take it quietly!

Hm...for someone raised by a single father you are quite the feminist (at least in your believes!) - I know women like you and most of them would scoff at your believes (most of them believe that you either make it on your own merrits or you don't deserve it), especially "patriarchy" (feminist term, hate it - especially since that hasn't been true in decades - second wave feminism and all that!)...i like second wave feminism, but I hate third wave (I want the radicals, like Anita Sarkeesian, GONE! SILENCED (no, not killed, but ignored, not being offered a plattform to spew their vile shit anymore!))    

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ps: Look up the statistics if you don't believe me (do it yourself, so you can't accuse me of doctoring them or of having confirmation bias by only looking at statistics I like and that confirm my POV!)

Also: I agree on abortion: Women should have that right, but: So should men (no: They should not be able to force women to have one, but they should be able to walk away without taking any responsibility for the child - just like women can with abortion!)!

Yeah, religion...humanity should rid itself of that (no more islamic terrorists without Islam and that's just one example!)

Citation needed! (Which problems do you see with this game so far? I only see some missed opportunities (armed Nomad (for vehicle combat!), orbital strikes (needs an armed Tempest!), close air support (needs: Armed Kodiak-Shuttle or some fighters!) and minor problems (almost all companions seem to favor close quarters combat and they don't have all that many abilities and you can't control their ability use, no tactical pause etc. etc.)...but nothing major so far!)

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In your dreams!

If all women stopped working this second society would suffer badly (women do important things, no doubt about it), but it would not collapse (!) - if men did the same (stop working today and let women figure it out on their own) society would be in shambles (!)

Electricity would go out, sewers would stop working, no more clean water, no more stuff delivered to the supermarket, garbage would pile up on the street etc. etc.

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Guys I think it's been established that the Andromeda Initiative is about going to Andromeda. Not sure what the fuss is about?

Over all? No!

In fact I pride myself on the fact that I don't accept gender stereotypes, in fact I will judge every person by their merits (gender is not a consideration, unless they use it to get out of certain work ("This is women's/men's work, I don't want to do this!"), even if they don't outright say it but say stuff like "That is too heavy" (if something can be lifted by a 12 year old boy than it's not to heavy for a woman to lift, sorry you are just shirking work!) or "My husband does all the work around the house" (as if that means she shouldn't fucking help him!), same goes of course for "My wife does all the cooking/cleaning/laundry etc." (help her god damned - unless of course she's a housewife and you work full time!). Or if they behave a certain way - I hate the princess type girly women (I just do, so useless...most of them are so helpless when they have problems like a flat tire and similar things), same for macho-men (don't like men who are "bad-boys" and treat women like shit)...both are IMHO the worst of their gender and should just go die in a hole somewhere! Give me nice guys and tomboy women any day!)

It just feels like they are pushing gender politics (I mean they employ people like Manveer Heir and that virtual-GTA-rape-girl, so scepticism is warranted!)

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Manveer Heir!

GTA-Virtual-Rape-Girl!

Especially Manveer of course (that they don't reprimand him for his racist statements or fire him - I mean if he's a racist, ok - but if he's a racist that seems to have the backing of Bioware? Damned, guys get rid of this toxic guy ASAP! (it's what I would do, he's damaging Bioware itself with his statements, if he had done them without his name attached to them? Ok, but he downright states that he's a developer at Bioware (and not a small time dev. either, he's a senior developer if I remember this right!)))

Enough said I think, those two make me very cautious!

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