It's actually about equality. There are too few real female action heroes, too few Ripleys and too many Babydolls. Women in action/sci-fi/adventure media are usually either hypersexualized for the male audience (Lara Croft anyone?) or subservient to the male lead (most of the times both). So seeing one of the great female action heroes of modern sci-fi get no recognition at all from her authors obviously gets people upset. They are playing as this great kickass female yet all they see in the promo material is Sheploo. She is never even acknowledged, and no it's not enough that the option is in-game. If the only person we see in promos is male shepard, it gives weight to him that shouldn't be there. It gives people an opportunity to go around saying that femshep should be cut, or that the canon shep is male, or any other number of things that are, well, crap.So I guess it is about entitlement.
One fifth of the players play femShep, and I think one trailer out of all the storm of promotional content that they no doubt have planned is a good way to finally show to that one-fifth of the players that their version of Shepard is not invisible.
Also, google sexism in the media. Makes for good reading.
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