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dr-jekyl:krishnath:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:brookietf:thefingerfuckingfemalefury:minerfromtarn:skyllianhamster:breakfast with the t’sonis@thefingerfuckingfemalefury They are the cutest and loveliest of Space Families <3Awwww :D YAY!Screw Bioware and their “Asari don’t mate with each other anymore since going to space” straight nonsense.<3 Let Asari wives be happy together <3Asari can canonically mate with people of any gender and species and produce offspring. The reason they don’t mate with each other (in general, it being a social taboo) is because it increases the likelihood that they produce a psychic vampire from the union literally a millionfold. One of the temporary companions in the second game is such a vampire, and if you have relations with them, they kill you. There is also another, more sympathetic example of such a psychic vampire, that literally lives as a celibate nun to avoid killing people. And one of your permanent companions in the game is the mother of such a vampire. Now, I am not saying it is right, but there is extensive lore and examples in the game to why the Asari prefer to mate with other races of either gender. To Bioware’s credit, they did think it through and came up with reasonable reasons to why Asari culture is how it is and why they act the way they do. (as for the “evil” psychic vampire, if you let her live, you get to fight her later as a banshee, while trying to protect the “good” psychic vampire from suffering the same fate).I think you’re kinda barking up the wrong tree if you’re telling @thefingerfuckingfemalefurry about ME lore.That said, there’s a bit to unpack here.Firstly, the chances of having offspring with the disorder is vanishingly small. Like, tiny. It has to be, given that, well, for the vast, vast majority of their history, asari banged other asari. Exclusively. If the chances of having a psychic vampire were that high, asari society would be absolutely chock full of them.Secondly, it’s quite apparent that they didn’t think it through because they never provided an explanation to the lingering question of: why the fuck hasn’t Ardat-Yakshi syndrome been fixed? Technology exists in the Mass Effect universe to genetically engineer every single member of an entire species and, oh, literally bring people back from the dead but the asari can’t fix their little psychic vampire problem? They can’t even screen for it? There has never been a satisfactory answer to that question.Thirdly, I’m not going to give Bioware credit for making what is, for all intents and purposes, a female-coded race plagued known for producing not just psychic vampires, but psychic sex vampires. Sex vampires. Who have an uncontrollable lust for killing people. Who kill people by having sex with them.It’s not a reasonable idea. It is, in fact, a terrible idea, and Bioware should feel bad for having had it, let alone using it. Why is it bad? Because ‘women are sex vampires’ is on par with ‘woman controls man with her magic vageen’ in that it presents female sexuality as inherently dangerous. This an idea and trope that needs to die, stat.It’s actually worse here, because, as I alluded to above, asari are both presented as being remarkably similar to human women physically and are repeatedly coded female in the games. That makes asari/asari relationships incredibly easy to read as being an analogy for lesbian relationships. So, what the game inadvertently ends up saying, by using this shitty, shitty trope, is that if female sexuality is dangerous, women loving women is to dangerous to tolerate. It is, in fact, so dangerous that women must stop having sex with women and instead go get a good dicking bang anyone else. Women must especially not have and raise children with other women.For the record, the other reading is treating the asari as being truly agender, and that just means the game is presenting NB/NB relationships as being inherently dangerous and wrong, which is not one jot less awful.TL;DR while I treasure Samara and her daughters, Ardat-Yakshi syndrome as a narrative concept is utter bullshit. -- source link
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