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Bit of old news but...
Quick sum up: For Mass Effect 3 Bioware held a poll on which one of a various few selected versions of the female Shepherd would become the "official" one for marketing and such. The fifth one, otherwise known as the blonde one, was winning last I checked. The linked article is a woman bitching about the blonde Shepherd, and how she looks like a bimbo without any personality.
Now here's what fucking bothers me. Two games have already come out showing Shepherd to have some great depth as a character, and the female version still a great role model for women as she kicks ass and has (albiet a somewhat customizable one) a good in depth personality.
Now I've always liked it when strong female characters are selected to become part of a game's marketing, especially when its not focusing on said character's sexuality. I always want it to happen more, and so do a lot of women. But now that the blonde Shepherd is winning people are bitching because of her fucking
hair colour? Really, how fucking shallow is that where you can base someone's entire personality off the colour of their damn hair. Because she's blonde she's automatically a bimbo who cares more about her nails than her job... despite the fact that
two previous games have established this character as anything but.
The difference between the various Shepherds up for the poll is in the hair alone. They have the same expression, same facial features, same pose. So the person who wrote this article is basically saying that to have long blonde hair automatically makes you a bimbo.
The author even goes on to mention how she's excited that a female shepherd is going to be used for marketing. But with such a backhanded slap like this, based on shallow observations, how the fuck does she expect to gain any ground? "It's not precisely what I wanted, I don't like blondes, blah blah,"
I think a comic from Penny Arcade said it best.
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