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Oh. I'm sorry. I didn't realize that people finding a woman with blond hair and blue eyes was racist. Or that it was wrong to design multiple characters and let the fans choose.
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Actually, that article says that the redesign was sexist since it based the appearance of a female character on how attractive she was... or something. I don't think that article is trying to say it's racist, or at least that's not the main point. Apparently, though, other articles go for the racist angle anyway, so yeah.
Either way, it's really dumb, and the redesign was neither racist nor sexist.
Am I the only one who noticed that Femshep's redesign has the same general build as male Shepard? Her shoulders are wider than her hips, her body is in a confident, aggressive, alpha male pose, and the only thing that tells you that she's a female below the neck is her boobplate, and even that is pretty diminished. She looks like a genetically modified super-soldier who can punch through tanks and take down machine-gods.
My only real complaint (aside from the boobplate) is that she's wearing makeup and her hair is long. I find it hard to believe that the first step every morning for a space marine is to put on makeup and style her hair.
1. I'm no expert, but I think that women like to change makeup to suit certain circumstances, if what I've learned from the women in my basement is any indication.
2. Why would a genetically modified, cybernetically augmented super soldier who hangs around aliens all day care that she had no hair? And why would she negate the combat advantage of having no hair by wearing a wig?
Besides, long hair can be badass.
I'm not denying that long hair can be awesome. Aragorn and Buffy both had long hair, and they were badasses.
But Shepard is a military woman. She isn't a ranger or a college student.
Some of the most monumental badasses in meatspace history have been military longhairs.
Femshep is constructed at all because of her popularity with fans. She was never going to appear in any official trailer, there never was any recognised female Shepard. So, dammit, the fact that she turned out to be popular enough that devs were forced to acknowledge her is enough.
Besides, she looks badass. And if people point to the stereotype of damn blonde - well, shouldn't that be praised as going against the stereotype then? Its not like Shepard's characterisation is going to change - and she is smart confident badass.