Asari lore: gender pronoun change?

I see a couple of possibilities:
1) As you suggested, the asari have learned about gender references in other languages and some of them don't like some of the implications associated with feminine references. Some languages (like Spanish) are quite sexist in that they assign gender to inanimate objects.
2) Some of them never really accepted the idea that they were being gendered at all.



Sure. It also works better if you don't assume that everyone else has the same understanding of (or hang-ups about) gender as you do.

(Still trying to figure out why insights about a culture have to be a BIG POLITICAL DEAL).

Man you conservative snowflakes are easily triggered.

It could also be a case of common courtesy.

The use of such words to other species to make them easier to talk to/categorize in the end. Hence why some don't care while others take offense because it feels it mis-characterizes them.  The Asari as a mono-gendered species, based upon the way they procreate, are more or less stuck in that sort of trope in of itself. I wonder if there were nothing but Asari, would the Asari see "gender" in the same way we do?

I got to say, for a small, throw-away line in context to the grand scheme of things it seems out of place, but it is the kind of playing with those tropes that do make the Asari a step above other, similarly written alien stereotypes. They are not really female, not in the same sense of the word, they are simply a culture and species that is ambivalent to what such terms mean. 

It's why the more interesting parallel to this is, ironically, the Kett. Their pro-creation process is similar to the Asari, but more bio-engineered and from a test tube versus a natural connection based on physiology. This is what makes the Asari fascinating, but also annoying, when the whole point of their existence is alien eye-candy to begin with. 

I kind of want BioWare to explore these ideas further, gender roles in a genderless society and the sort of backdoor transgenderism that the Asarai actually can play around with. Would we consider an Asari squadmate as Masculine? What if they did, acted like one of the guys a lot more than PeeBee, Samara or Liara ever did? Would that be out of the question for an Asari?  And would that really be transgenderism in the traditional sense, or simply just the way such an Asari would behave, making her less of a "female avatar" in that regard. 

That to me gives them a lot more depth in terms of a species, so even if the small line is a bit clunky, it is at least giving the race actual depth. Saying the Asari are "strong, independent women" I think is missing the point of them, as they are not really women in the same sense as we should view them by their culture.

But I could just be overthinking it...

I just love having slimgrin's and linksocarina's posts right next to each other.

Does anyone know why the Asari look all the same in ME:A?

They used to be one of my favourite species, PB aside they seem to have ben taken out into the carpark for a good shellacking.