ME 3 Trailer Shows Default FemShep in Action

[Freechoice]

Of course you can have angry, potty-mouthed women, but those are just negative characteristics arbitrarily assigned.

No, they aren't, some people are actually like that. Any friend of mine will tell you I'm argumentative, I shout, I swear, I argue about video games at 6am...

The strange thing is when I watched that trailer I thought 'Yeah lets go kick some reaper butt femshep!' while some people thought 'Pfft that woman is pretending to be a tough guy doesn't she know her place?'

That's the problem. The minute the voice changed from a man to a woman everyone rejected the idea of outward toughness (further defining it for you) when it's no less of a valid character.

I understand what you mean about mental toughness but again, there's no reason why a women shouldn't show verbal and physical toughness either. Unless she lives in a Jane Austen novel.

ps:lol at the Fonzie pic.

Yeah, some people are sexist. Conflagrated has the appropriate response. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcNrCe-4Lls#t=14s]

Baby steps. You start with a female that is emotionally sound and then make her externally tough through moments of characterization--an inverse Grayson Hunt. Then people will like her. Then you do that again about a million times.


Side note: Do you play or are you familiar with the lore of Starcraft?

 

[Moonlight Butterfly]

Of course you can have angry, potty-mouthed women, but those are just negative characteristics arbitrarily assigned.

No, they aren't, some people are actually like that. Any friend of mine will tell you I'm argumentative, I shout, I swear, I argue about video games at 6am...

The strange thing is when I watched that trailer I thought 'Yeah lets go kick some reaper butt femshep!' while some people thought 'Pfft that woman is pretending to be a tough guy doesn't she know her place?'

That's the problem. The minute the voice changed from a man to a woman everyone rejected the idea of outward toughness (further defining it for you) when it's no less of a valid character.

I understand what you mean about mental toughness but again, there's no reason why a women shouldn't show verbal and physical toughness either. Unless she lives in a Jane Austen novel.

ps:lol at the Fonzie pic.

Yeah, some people are sexist. Conflagrated has the appropriate response. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcNrCe-4Lls#t=14s]

Baby steps. You start with a female that is emotionally sound and then make her externally tough through moments of characterization--an inverse Grayson Hunt. Then people will like her. Then you do that again about a million times.


Side note: Do you play or are you familiar with the lore of Starcraft?

I don't no, but I do know of the character of Kerrigan and that she's touted as a competant female character.

 

[Freechoice]

Of course you can have angry, potty-mouthed women, but those are just negative characteristics arbitrarily assigned.

No, they aren't, some people are actually like that. Any friend of mine will tell you I'm argumentative, I shout, I swear, I argue about video games at 6am...

The strange thing is when I watched that trailer I thought 'Yeah lets go kick some reaper butt femshep!' while some people thought 'Pfft that woman is pretending to be a tough guy doesn't she know her place?'

That's the problem. The minute the voice changed from a man to a woman everyone rejected the idea of outward toughness (further defining it for you) when it's no less of a valid character.

I understand what you mean about mental toughness but again, there's no reason why a women shouldn't show verbal and physical toughness either. Unless she lives in a Jane Austen novel.

ps:lol at the Fonzie pic.

Yeah, some people are sexist. Conflagrated has the appropriate response. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcNrCe-4Lls#t=14s]

Baby steps. You start with a female that is emotionally sound and then make her externally tough through moments of characterization--an inverse Grayson Hunt. Then people will like her. Then you do that again about a million times.


Side note: Do you play or are you familiar with the lore of Starcraft?

I don't no, but I do know of the character of Kerrigan and that she's touted as a competant female character.[/quote

Now where I was going, but whatever. Oh, and she got fucked over too. Fucking Blizzard makes solid gold and then tosses it for tin foil. Dumbshits.

 

[Fappy]

Holy shit derailment Batman... like 1 1/2 pages of derailment. :O

For what it's worth Jessica's analysis is quite on the mark. And I know plenty of close friends in real life who are guilty of the kind of prejudice she is describing.

 

[KingofMadCows]

I wonder why Bioware doesn't just base the appearance of more characters on real people like they did with male Shepard and Miranda.

Why not just scan Jennifer Hale's face for FemShep?

 

[Zhukov]

If I might interrupt this slightly aggravating discussion for a moment...

It's interesting to see that they've started putting Ms Shepard in their other trailers as well.

Example: