So andromeda initiative is all about girlpower?

Why in both scenarios you have him stepping down on me

Thank you for the tutorial

It's barely even a retcon since even before Krem, lore already said that in certain situations, women could assume the roles of men in certain situations.

The entirety of the three Dragon Age games were influenced by the modern political and religious framework while simultaneously taking influence from past cultures. None of this is hidden in any sort of context.

They don't have to realistically frame the struggle because the struggle was all prior to present events summed up in a conversation. The struggle is over with in Krem's, therefore there's nothing to frame. And that's ignoring the fact that it's only two cultures being depicted as being indifferent to it and it's none of the societies we spent two prior games getting to know.

And that's ignoring the fact that there's been entire societies and there still are societies that recognized even more than three genders and you're only viewing things through a standard, stereotypical western european sociopolitical lens as if some of these cultures that I just referred to aren't as old, if not older, than those that you base your world view on. Historically, identity politics line up regardless of the time period your setting is influenced on.

Even still, all works of fiction are influenced by the politics surrounding their writers. It's why the X-Men were influenced by the Civil Rights movement, why Darth Sidious' Sith Empire was based on Nazi Germany, and why every villain in anything vaguely modern is some Middle Eastern pastiche.

The Qun doesn't care about individual wills. Hell, in DA:I it was stated pretty obviously that the Qun put the importance of the...Qun, above all else, and individuals who defy that would be subjected to either "correction" or "elimination."

I suppose... it's good that they acknowledge people like Krem? But can you call it good that beyond that first acknowledgement, people like Krem would also be stripped of all individual wills and must subject themselves under the full authority of the Qun?

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Wait, this is off-topic, isn't it, hahah.

Good morning everyone, how many fictional genders have we discovered last night?

Bad animations, subpar combat (see the 17 minute gameplay), idiotic ai (again see gameplay footage), potentially repetitive gameplay ala DA:I. Real systemic problems with the structure of the game that needs to be addressed. Having women in charge is not a problem at all 

Wow. How did this dumpster fire of a thread reach 15 pages?

Except, no offense, there have been female gamers for years. As you said, they just haven't been keeping them in mind, and that's an issue. They were ignored, like how there's always been female movie-goers but the majority of movies that depicted women for years only showed female characters onscreen as love interests or mothers or other very limited archetypes.

There's an issue with assuming that the status quo is fine because it caters to the majority, when that's not even always the case. There has always been an effort to suppress stories for groups that people think shouldn't be catered to. Think of it this way: musicals have been considered a "gay" thing for years with lots of people who consume or have a hand in creating musicals being LGBT, yet musicals with explicitly gay characters and content have been extremely rare until fairly recently.

I have no issue with not liking the "woman can too" message in settings where it shouldn't be an issue one way or another, but to call having a lot of female characters in important roles to be that situation automatically is based on literally nothing. And I don't think there being a lot of female characters in leading roles is a symptom of any kind of problem, especially not whatever the hell you guys seem to be reading into the situation.

We could also make it into a physical fitness app - if the phone detects you're moving too fast, you lose your detection "powers" - so you have to walk to find your fellow attack helicopter - or walk to collect as many furries as you can in a single day. 

Well see, if someone thinks there are an unrealistic/non-representative amount of women in power in this game and states that it seems unrealistic or like a feminist agenda, and then other people state that they are fine with it and that sometimes it can be good to have more women in power for empowerment, or explain that there actually are a significant amount of men in positions of power in the AI so the point is moot, eventually if everyone yells enough "facts" at each other the other person is VERY VERY LIKELY to change their entire position on this debate.

Because in situations like this, there is assuredly a right answer and it can't be just a matter of opinion, right?
(i.e. see "Weapons on Tempest/Nomad thread)

The Vissians have 3, Species 8472 has 5 and the J'naii are monogendered, but do have individuals who identify as male or female.

Or were we not meant to answer this with random Star Trek trivia? You did ask for "fictional" genders, after all?