Retcons or contradictions that you have noticed

This is basically my point. When it was universal feminine terms, you could just interpret it as the translators making a uniform translation for 'asari'. (Would have been the same thing if they were exclusively referred to with male pronouns.)


When you now have asari who prefer female, male, or neutral terms depending on the specific asari, you're explicitly introducing gender.

As the title says, what are some retcons or outright contradictions that you noticed in this game, compared to the numbered trilogy and expanded universe? They can be small and minute and not-all-that-important, or major and lore-breaking.

For me, the one that stuck out is how the asari now have male terms and pronouns for themselves, despite being an all-female species with a language that has, up to this point, only had female signifiers, e.g. the stages of life of an asari are "maiden", "matron", and "matriarch", and asari children always being referred to as daughters. Introducing a male dynamic completely does away with what makes the asari interesting, that they are a monogendered species with a culture that reflects that. Aria in Mass Effect 2 even mentions that the reason she named Patriarch "Patriarch" is because the asari don't have a proper term for a male leader, because there are no male asari. Aria is in essence saying that Patriarch, as the previous leader of Omega before her, is nothing, he may as well not exist, he's so irrelevant.

Nothing about the asari beforehand supported the notion that they would even have any concept of males in their own culture, and Andromeda mentioning that there are now, for lack of a better term, transgender asari, just comes off as progressive pandering for good boy points.

It's what some people say when confronted with something that doesn't conform to their narrow political viewpoint.

The part that really gets to me is the straight out of tumblr language of: "Thank you for asking, I appreciate it. " So apparently one is canonically supposed to ask an asari for gender pronouns before talking. 

What do you guys mean when you say Tumblr crowd, Tumblr language and all that stuff.

What do you guys mean when you say Tumblr crowd, Tumblr language and all that stuff.