User blog comment:Commdor/Vote for ME3's Female Shepard/@comment-4310467-20110817204301/@comment-2008379-20110817230313

''Probably because there were so many people who felt it looked too fake. I've seen many people play as default male Shepard but the default FemShep was rarely used from what I can tell. They have stated that the original default can still be used though so it works out for all the FemShep lovers.''