Quote Originally Posted by Theodric View Post
The Viera are a fictional race in a fantasy game. They're not the equivalent to modern day humans in the real world, thus their values and cultural beliefs/trends are going to differ. Those who disagree with the status quo take their leave, those who are content with it choose to remain.

This is all getting alarmingly close to the mentality of needing to educate and reform their tribal ways, though.
Now you're putting words in my mouth. We don't have the full story, so all of this is speculation. What little we do have so far pushes the bounds of credibility for some of us who actually enjoy engaging with and critiquing our media on a deeper level. No values judgments are being made, though your knee-jerk reactions are always fairly telling.

That said, I think the Star Trek rule applies. The writers are human, and writings by humans are, by their very existence, explorations of humanity and human nature. Any pretensions otherwise, like "oh, but they're aliens," have only ever been a layer of plausible deniability used to facilitate discussions of issues that tend to make people a bit touchy. Like you and gender norms, which has already been very well established thank you and still contributes basically nothing.

If you don't like the discussion, just move on. I think we'd all prefer it if you kept your word about sticking to the stuff you liked and stopped constantly interjecting about the stuff you don't.