Thoughts on the new Femshep in Mass Effect 3

This is less an attempt at a coherent post and more a continuation of a discussion that got too long for twitter. Overall this is a lesson in why asking me "my thoughts" is a bad idea, I'm tl;dr enough when asked to answer a specific question :D

So: Tim asked me what I thought of the article Leave FemShep Alone: An Open Letter to BioWare.

EDIT: Why the Mass Effect 3 FemShep vote was the wrong move makes some good points I feel a bit embarrassed for not thinking of.
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Non-native English celebration fest

Yvi is asking for suggestions about a non-English language fest on Dreamwidth for people who don't speak English as a native language (including people who learn their culture's language later in life, but not someone like me who learnt a second language at school because it sounded like fun)

I think it sounds like a cool idea, and would be happy enough not posting for a day if that would help. I am wondering if people would prefer comments in English, my dodgy German (as appropriate), or machine translated, or if it would be better for me not to comment at all.

Es ist vielleicht besser fuer alles dass ich werde nicht eine ganz Post auf Deutsch zu schrieben :)