No Turian Females
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Because only blue alien chicks are interesting?
It's actually due in part to an ingrained layer of sexism that labels gender neutral as being male... or at least not being female by way of no boobs or hips. Gender-neutral then means that when no though is put into if this is male or female, which alien races fall into because it has 4 eyes is more interesting then it looks like it has a penis, the human mind gravitates toward a more masculine look. characters will be male by default and female by design. Of course maybe the universe is mostly uni-sex or maybe all races besides us and the previous mentioned blue chicks are male-only.
It's actually due in part to an ingrained layer of sexism that labels gender neutral as being male... or at least not being female by way of no boobs or hips. Gender-neutral then means that when no though is put into if this is male or female, which alien races fall into because it has 4 eyes is more interesting then it looks like it has a penis, the human mind gravitates toward a more masculine look. characters will be male by default and female by design. Of course maybe the universe is mostly uni-sex or maybe all races besides us and the previous mentioned blue chicks are male-only.
There are apparetly Elcor females. According to the Mass Effect wiki, one of the Elcor in the Hamlet advertisment was a female. And i agree that i doubt it would be easy to tell anyway. Same goes for the hanar, which have no features that can really prove a male from a female. I dont believe the Volus are an excuse, because they at elast have diffrent voices, so a female would probably be easy enough to differ from a male.
I think Bioware said that you may have seen Salarian females and just not known. They apparently look very similar to the males.
As for female Turians, who knows. It seems the male Turians are too busy trying to hook up with Quarians ;-)
@Silver wolf009: Lord Of The Rings reference much?
As for female Turians, who knows. It seems the male Turians are too busy trying to hook up with Quarians ;-)
@Silver wolf009: Lord Of The Rings reference much?
"Ah yes, the 'female Turians.' We have dismissed that claim."
It didn't seem that Shepard talked with Turians in ME2 as much as he did in ME1 (aside from killing them). They'll probably show us some in ME3.
It didn't seem that Shepard talked with Turians in ME2 as much as he did in ME1 (aside from killing them). They'll probably show us some in ME3.
In general I agree that they needed more character models for the aliens, they for example seem to only have ONE Volus model. The only races that seem to be varied to any extent are humans and Asari, the rest seem mostly recycled from a comparitively limited selection.
It proberly has something to do with memory, the work involved ect, being more effort than simply putting a few lines of dialog to explain the lack of females.
Strictly speaking they are closer to birds than lizzards, being raptors as they are.Souplex said:
There is mention of a female turian while talking to Garrus, one that he sparred with and slept with. That's proof enough to me that they exist in a military context (the turians being a military race) thus the non-feminist theories seem a bit bust to me. But I must agree with my pal Souplex. All the races (with the exception of the Asari) were designed with certain animals in mind. Salarians bear much resemblance to salamanders, Turians were, funnily enough, deigned to look like birds of prey but were designed to be exoskeletal and reptilian. Reptiles don't have secondary sexual characteristics other than the ability to retain eggs in females and corresponding cloaca, neither of are noticeable unless there are eggs in the egg-sacks or if you look very closely in their crotchal area at the cloaca. It's true that voice cast is highly tilted in the male direction, Bioware seems to listen to complaints pretty well so if you have a problem with it complain like there's no tomorrow.
Who knows. Maybe we have seen Elcor and Hanar females, just Elcor use pheromones to communicate, and the Hanar use that bioluminescence/telepathy thing, so there would be no masculine/feminine voice difference for us to tell them apart. Plus its hard to tell what gender certain animals are without... you know... checking. Or maybe they are asexual and reproduce with... i dont know, spores or something.Sky Captanio said:
Or...... ah nah thats too creepy to think of.
And due to the lack of appearances made by Turian females, many people make the assuption that there are no female Turians; and that Turians merely jump out of holes in the ground.
Which is of course ridiculous.
Which is of course ridiculous.