Non-binary gender
anonymous
June 11 2012, 05:00:52 UTC
One thing that bugged me about the asari was how they were called 'mono-gendered' as opposed to 'mono-sexed' or something of the like. Asari are pidgeon-holed with all the feminine cliches, instead of being shown has having a wider range of freedoms because of it. Liara pays lip service to the idea of not really being a woman, but aside from Matriarch Aethyta, where do we see really non-stereotypical asari?
Same with turians- I love the fan/headcanon idea that we see female turians all the time, they just look so much like the males that we can't tell the difference. Perhaps drell females have a drastic size difference? Perhaps some species actually change biological sex.
So, in other words: make the ME universe More Complicated Than That. Introduce a third sex/gender, have a turian flip out about the sexism that still resides in Human culture. An asari wonder why being female is so restrictive. Perhaps they just don't understand the concept of someone being trangender. It's a big, interesting and complicated universe out there, and it is meant to reflect our big, interesting and complicated human one. Go for it.
Re: Non-binary gender
anonymous
June 11 2012, 07:13:46 UTC
OH THIS!!! this non-binary anon agrees so HARD. what a great prompt, i want to give you an award and i want to bless the anon who fills this prompt with lots of fanart.
Re: Non-binary gender
anonymous
June 11 2012, 20:52:07 UTC
There are a lot of things about the asari that don't make any sense. If you know anything, even a little bit, about parthenogenesis you'd know it doesn't fit at all with the Asari at all, else they'd probably have weaker immune systems than the Quarians, along with another long range of issues, especially now that we know that biotics was artificially introduced to them by the Protheans merely 50kya. My own theory is that they're kleptogens, not parthenogens.
Salarians should have much more gender dimorphism given their reproductive system. Given the info we have on female turians, and the fact that Bakara's head crest is probably smaller than the males', Salarians actually have the least sexual dimorphism when they should have the most. If it's in their biology that they are not monogamous and that 90% of them are male (and thus males have to compete with one another to get the chance to reproduce, it's practically said in the games that getting a breeding contract is not easy), they should have plenty of dimorphism even if we're just talking colors here. (Of course, if bright colors are considered a masculine trait, that kind of fucks up their attraction to asari)
As for turians, if they're monogamous by nature then yeah, they should have very little sexual dimorphism. My own personal headcanon is that the females' fringes are more curved and shorter like the Asari's, rather than straight up sticking out like the males', but other than that look very similar.
Re: Non-binary gender
anonymous
June 12 2012, 06:10:15 UTC
My headcanon for Turians is very little sexual dimorphism, so that to humans they look basically identical. As a result bisexuality is the norm because of how similar the genders look - both hetero and homo sexual turians are considered minority groups, although of course whatever social stigma that once had has dissapeared in this more enlightened age.
Re: Non-binary gender
anonymous
June 12 2012, 07:55:56 UTC
Liara pays lip service to the idea of not really being a woman, but aside from Matriarch Aethyta, where do we see really non-stereotypical asari?
To be fair, I thought ME2 did a pretty good job of giving us a fair number of 'butch' asari - the detective on Illium, the various named Blue Suns commanders, Aria, Tela Vasir...
Same with turians- I love the fan/headcanon idea that we see female turians all the time, they just look so much like the males that we can't tell the difference. Perhaps drell females have a drastic size difference? Perhaps some species actually change biological sex.
So, in other words: make the ME universe More Complicated Than That. Introduce a third sex/gender, have a turian flip out about the sexism that still resides in Human culture. An asari wonder why being female is so restrictive. Perhaps they just don't understand the concept of someone being trangender. It's a big, interesting and complicated universe out there, and it is meant to reflect our big, interesting and complicated human one. Go for it.
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Salarians should have much more gender dimorphism given their reproductive system. Given the info we have on female turians, and the fact that Bakara's head crest is probably smaller than the males', Salarians actually have the least sexual dimorphism when they should have the most. If it's in their biology that they are not monogamous and that 90% of them are male (and thus males have to compete with one another to get the chance to reproduce, it's practically said in the games that getting a breeding contract is not easy), they should have plenty of dimorphism even if we're just talking colors here.
(Of course, if bright colors are considered a masculine trait, that kind of fucks up their attraction to asari)
As for turians, if they're monogamous by nature then yeah, they should have very little sexual dimorphism. My own personal headcanon is that the females' fringes are more curved and shorter like the Asari's, rather than straight up sticking out like the males', but other than that look very similar.
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To be fair, I thought ME2 did a pretty good job of giving us a fair number of 'butch' asari - the detective on Illium, the various named Blue Suns commanders, Aria, Tela Vasir...
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