Aria T'Loak says the word "patriarch" doesn't exist for her people.

Every time I read one your posts, I just get this feeling in the back of my mind that you would be much happier doing something else yet you just can't seem to go do that something else.

Which one, I wonder?
But yeah, I agree. I think sometimes when you go all out rage-mode on the SJW-topics people assume it's because you must hate diversity or live under a rock or that you are a really right-winged idiot or whatever, but it really comes down to one thing: I want to be immersed and I don't want to be patronized. I know there's a lot of infighting over the rights of LGBT+ and race equality right now and so-called "white-supremacy" that indeed does plague games because of how big corporates like EA have set a precedent that pretty much (in the past at least) locked out black protagonists from a "limited marketing potential" or what have you, but you can tell when peer-pressure or pandering takes over as the no. 1 reason why people inside the games are suddenly making points that sound like your everyday social media babble.

It's that simple. Just don't make it patronizing and don't pick one side of a political standpoint and try to force it down over your players. I know people hate Trump and they're desperate right now, but when I'm playing a video game I'm specifically not thinking about those things, and also I'm not american so it all looks like a big puppet show from where I live which only makes it extra annoying and america-centric when issues related are brought up too heavy-handedly.

The obvious solution is to pour ryncol in everyone's ears to kill the babelfish in there.

Sad!

Aria: The word patriarch doesn't exist for our people.

Shepard: So what about Liara's father?

Aria: What was he, a krogan? Hanar? ........Vorcha?

Shepard: No, another asari.

Aria: What the shit...

Aethyta: Anthropocentric bad of dicks.

Aria: Enough mother, father isn't here to back you up this time.

Aethyta: I thought you said that wasn't how it works...

Liara: Wait, if I have a sister who's part Hanar.....

Patriarchal system of oppression from another asari who's the exact same as you... Ya know, for "reasons."

Damn the man, and all that jazz.

It was already retconned in Mass Effect 3 when we learn that the Protheans helped uplift the Asari and Liara specifically refers to the messenger of Athame as "he". The Prothean VI on Thessia is also clearly male.

If they had male religious figures then they obviously understood the concept of gender.

Excellent point. +100, for lore. I remember the scene in Thessia. 

Which is precisely why the pronoun thing is bullshit. Assuming the asari language even has pronouns, they would have one. And when translating back and forth they would either go "why do you have two words for our one word" or they'd just shut up and list both as the translation.

Or, when speaking, the translators may pick the "incorrect" word and lead to some raised eyebrows. But certainly not a cretinous lecture like the one in game.

Now I want to consult a linguist for how pronouns get picked up vs regular words. Because I'm almost positive it's not the same process.

And this trivia is important because?

"No art should be censored. Except MEA because I don't like it."