User blog comment:Commdor/Vote for ME3's Female Shepard/@comment-84037-20110725013111/@comment-2059511-20110725035220

It doesn't change the fact that the default male appearance is the Shepard that is considered canon. Shepard is not meant to be you, he's just meant to be your version of Shepard. Like i said, Bioware refuses to set a canon because that would defeat all purpose of him being customisable. Bioware will never establish a canon Shepard so players who prefer to customise will not feel that "their Shepard" is not the correct one.