User blog comment:Commdor/Vote for ME3's Female Shepard/@comment-84037-20110725013111/@comment-737801-20110725031148

Except it isn't canon. BioWare flat out refuses to set a canon Shepard and default does not even remotely equal canon. Default is something completely separate from canon and anyone who says that default equals canon is misinformed about the issue, and should really look up the definitions to those words. The canon Shepard is unique to everyone and people think that default does equal canon, despite what BioWare has stated on numerous occasions. There is no canon Shepard, only a default one for people who don't want to customize their Shepard, but that is not the canon Shepard. Attaching canon to that is not appropriate because it isn't canon and it gives the wrong idea about the universe and the game that BioWare helped create. They said there is no canon Shepard, and therefore there is no canon Shepard and that's the end of it. Until BioWare changes their position, there won't be a canon Shepard.