Female Marauder

[pure.Wasted]

Umm you cant make the maurader female. The portrait is black and if you change it then you are racist. Of course you could make it a black female but then your gonna get a whole lot of accusations that you are just trying to fill your quota.

For all we know the Ghost is black under that mask. Then we can cut one and give it to females. Cause Earth populations aside, the K-sector population obviously has more females than it does black people.

Or the Viking can be black. Or... plenty of units, really. The Marauder's kind of the easiest way out. He's like the big tough Marine. Big tough guy = black guy. Eh.

[Crazy_Jonny]

Im all for equal rights, but StarCraft aint the place for it. We need our rednecks hard at work in the mines, tough black guys in heavy suits, and sexy ghosts and nurses. Its COOL!

You're a dumb idea.

Samus Aran. It has happened. It works. Well.

Samus's armor was sleek, the marauder is big and bulky. It would have to be a hero unit, which now that I think about it, doesn't sound bad.

[pure.Wasted]

Samus's armor was sleek, the marauder is big and bulky. It would have to be a hero unit, which now that I think about it, doesn't sound bad.

Why would it be OK for a hero but not OK for a non-hero? :P

[Crazy_Jonny]

Why would it be OK for a hero but not OK for a non-hero? :P

I meant it shouldnt take the place of a marauder, maybe as its own unit. If there was no room, make it a hero.

[Pandonetho]

I watched the BR again, is it just me or does the medivac look like a male? I can't tell specifically.

[pure.Wasted]

I meant it shouldnt take the place of a marauder, maybe as its own unit. If there was no room, make it a hero.

I find it a little weird to suggest that it was OK for Metroid to mainstreamize a non-mainstream concept (sexy chick piloting a bad-ass robot suit), but that StarCraft can't do that.

Stinks a bit of double-standards.

[DemolitionSquid]

I find it a little weird to suggest that it was OK for Metroid to mainstreamize a non-mainstream concept (sexy chick piloting a bad-ass robot suit), but that StarCraft can't do that.

Stinks a bit of double-standards.

Its not a double standard. Samus's suit is form fitting, and while you couldn't tell in the original 8 bit, its a very feminine design. Her ability to curl up into ball mode requires flexibility a man couldn't really have. Its just the nature of the suit, and the role she plays as singular character like a Ghost, not usually part of a larger army.

Would you support the Thor having a female driver, for any reason other than the sake of having more women represented? No. The Marauder as a female just doesn't feel right for the same reasons.

Its not that we don't want female units, we obviously do. But they should make sense in what roles they play in the military, and having squads of Marauders all female just doesn't make sense. Women are simply more valuable than men because of the almighty uterus, and thus need to take protected, support (MedEvac), or highly skilled (Banshee, Ghost) positions.

[Nicol Bolas]

Would you support the Thor having a female driver, for any reason other than the sake of having more women represented? No. The Marauder as a female just doesn't feel right for the same reasons.

You're assuming that the only valid reason to have a woman in the Thor would be to have more women represented. That's utter nonsense.

One reason would be to subvert expectations. It's something people wouldn't expect, rather than what they have now (which is what everyone expects). Doing what people expect is boring and common.

I'd even go so far as to have a Summer Glau-type woman driving a Thor.

The simple fact is that following along to obvious gender expectations/biases isn't interesting. It's boring. It's what everybody does; that's why those expectations exist.

The reason "Samus is a girl" works is because it's not what you expect.

[Pandonetho]

Except SC is awesome with stereotypes.

Seriously, Dugalle the French Admiral... loses the war. w00 for him.

[ArcherofAiur]

Make the marine a woman, actually no make all terran units women. That will surprise people!