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skarvo:

Your fave is problematic: Mass Effect

Literally every alien race either sidelines or sexualizes their female members within the series except the Quarians and the Rachni.

The Turians are literally governmentally led by The Patriarch and you never meet a single female turian. The only one ever mentioned is the one Garrus banged in a funny story.

The Salarians are technically ruled by their female members but it’s as a queen insect style set up where their gender defines their social role and they are very few in number. You do meet one female Salarian as their leader and ambassador.

The Krogan have gender based clans due to the genophage’s effects on reproduction wherein almost all dfab members are infertile and those who aren’t are closely guarded. However the only female Krogan you ever meet is a single fertile one whose role laregly surrounds this though she too, if she doesn’t die (which she does by default) goes on to be a leader (married to the head of the Krogans).

The Asari are a single sex race still called female both because of the social tendency to classify single sex species as female instead of not gendering them and their extremely sexualized appearance. There are many dancers and strippers in Mass Effect and every single one is Asari. Though they are good for having powerful and diverse female characters that they are the only significant non-human female presence in the game and are so heavily sexualized is far from great.

The other races (discluding quarians and rachni) are fewer in members showing in the game but they across the board bring only male members to the table, or having some male characteristics and having masculine pronouns used.

The Quarians are the only humanoid and primary race other than humans presenting no real differences in consideration for gender while the Rachni literally only have one significant character - The Rachni Queen - and are noted exceptions only to be clear that literally every other race brings nothing.

I love Mass Effect but it’s just it’s so exasperating.

EDIT: EDI the artificial intelligence identifies as female, eventually taking on a female (though in-game notably naked/sexually presenting) body, other robotic entities are treated as male but show no signs of caring about gender.