it takes three games to have a femshep-locked lesbian love interest, and even then she’s basically just a side character with little influence in the story. a single lesbian character in the entire series.
(the same goes for a mshep-locked gay love interest. In fact, I believe that in the entire series and all the romance options, there are two male options for mshep, including a single bisexual male character in the entire series who despite being a major character in the first game was locked to femshep, and is only mshep romanceable in the 3rd game. There are NINE bisexual romance options through the series ranging from full storylines to brief romantic/sexual encounters, and ONE of those characters is male, and only after retcon.)
should you pursue James Vega sexually in the Citadel dlc as femshep, you sexually harass and take advantage of him by stalking him as he’s getting drunk, continuously asking ‘what it would do to convince him [to sleep with you]’ and egging him on to keep drinking so his inhibitions will be lowered enough to want you. despite the fact that from the beginning of the topic being raised he’s obviously highly uncomfortable with it, and if/when you DO sleep with him, implies that he’s still uncomfortable and wants to forget it ever happened. Like, James ‘consents’ but it is borderline rape if not just outright rape, and if this was a male character/mshep doing this, you can be GUARANTEED that there would be outrage. Despite that almost any discussion on these scenes boils down to male gamers thinking that James should be super happy and pumped he got to fuck his commander and that his unhappy reaction about being coerced into sex with someone he respects and has a clear power imbalance over him is ‘weird.’
too riff of the comments about the Asari, they’re supposed to be the most politically powerful highly advanced species in the galaxy, with lifespans that can reach 1000 years, and a diverse society built on the back of culture and philosophy and politics and law. And yet despite this, the Asari are always strippers in clubs. They’re distinctly human in bodyshape, breasts, and beauty so all male gamers are safe to get their rocks off. They’re also canonically all non-binary yet this is completely and utterly ignored or really even commented on. Despite being depicted almost all the time as sexy blue pansexual chicks who will sleep with literally any race, there’s a small subset of Asari who have a genetic disorder who means that they kill those they have sex with and are also sterile, and these Asari are absolutely demonized by the game and the Asari population, and they supposedly become more powerful the more people they kill using this method, so go around seducing and murdering anybody they can get their hands on.
finally, the sentient AI onboard the ship starts out looking like this, just a floating holographic blue ball:
Yet in the third game finds herself a full robot body which just so happens to look like this:
Note the obvious colouration of her armour which implies that her breasts and ass are covered but not her cooch. Also, thigh highs?
The real reason for her getting this body is honestly just so she can become the love interest of a male character who gets the sexy robot girlfriend. Being a love interest pretty much becomes her entire character arc.
Edit: also want to add that the character who cheats on femshep and gets another woman pregnant and wants to name it after her is one of two black love interests in the series, both men, and the only black love interest available for femshep. :^)
