User blog comment:Commdor/Vote for ME3's Female Shepard/@comment-4048340-20110724213749/@comment-1746153-20110725100129

Well, it's not necessary you. Even in a forum RP, you can be a canon character, for example, and not your OC that is self-insertion. Same here - it's called playing a role, after all, not being yourself. Besides, male players may want to play as a good-looking female to have a good-looking female to look at all the time.