asari as "intelligent, thoughtful, sensual, over sexualized, objectified, infantilized". In her article published by Central European University in December 2015, Eva Edina Zekany argued that the asari could have been subject of vigorous discussion by anyone with an interest in analyzing the "subtleties of gender, sex, and nonheteronormativity", and yet they are "most commonly coded as embodiments of traditional femininity" within the series and by the fandom as a whole, which supersedes their potential as signifiers of a genderless sexuality. Ryan Winterhalte from 1UP.com alleged that the asari as one of three areas where Mass Effect 2 was sexist, citing how they were always eye candy and questioning the appearance of Samara and Matriarch Benezia, and concluded that BioWare's work in diversifying the race seemed "wasted". Mumu Lin from the Daily Californian criticized the overall depictions of the asari in the original trilogy as "straight male fantasy" as opposed to realistic writing, claiming that this shows the anthropocentric views of the game's writers when attempting to come up with a "diverse" world. She noted that in the Mass Effect series, female identifying aliens tend to align with depictions of human cisgender women in other popular media or do not appear at all until much later in the series due to the writers' "limited view of possibilities in alien races". In an article published by Glixel, Amanda Hudgins analyzed Lucas' presentation on the asari at the GDC 2018 Game Narrative Summit in March 2018. Hudgins remarked that the asari life cycle is about "community and self-actualization"; noting that the species are a conscious reaction to a sexist 1960s science fiction trope, she argued that it would be in the developer's best interest to continue its subversive portrayal of the asari as seen in the most recent games as it increases the franchise's inclusivity and profitability. Evan Narcisse, in an article published by The Atlantic, highlighted in-game dialogue between Liara T'Soni and Commander Shepard about mainstream asari culture being pro-diversification and pro-multiculturalism, which he believed to be "an incredibly progressive organizing principle for a whole society". He was moved by the notion that "there's a whole society that actually encourages mating outside the tribe", noting he had personal experience dealing with the scornful experiences from society towards interracial relationships. In a 2020 article, Stacey Henley from VG247 observed that the Mass Effect series have since moved away from an initially crude and