First time playing a fem shep

Femshep sounding like she's in heat around Jacob is part of what makes the Jacobmance so hilarious and enjoyable. She really wanted his Alabama black snake by the sound of it.

Female players rolling as Femshep. Male players playing as Male Shep.
And sure, not everyone is going to have the same reaction to someone. There's a lot of things a PC will say in such a way that won't be liked by other players. I don't think it's unique to just Shepard though. I pointed out the Jacob and Liara moments because there was no context to support that kind of response to a teammate. It was a very specific reaction to a general situation.
Interpretation is a vital thing to maintain, I agree. But some emotion can help immensely with immersion in a story. I tried to play with a male Shep and his voice ran over the lines so fast and flat in the first game that I couldn't stay with the character. Even if he was playing the stoic, there are specific inflections that can imply what someone who is reserved will tolerate and what they won't. Saying "No" firmly can imply that the matter is over, don't push it with him. If he said it without emphasis, almost absentmindedly, I'd wonder if he's even paying attention. Sadly, Meer had the latter's effect on me. He sounded too off for me to stay immersed with Shepard's character as a guy. Hale definitely had some flubs in her style as well, it was just less disruptive. But that's personal taste. I do believe Meer improved greatly as time went on and was equal to Hale's quality by the third game.

Same for mine, Kaidan was no longer around and giving her attitude, and the alternatives are frog man and bone lizard with his literal boner, so that explains why she was so excited for space mandingo.

Sometimes I let FemShep flirt with Jacob and simply lead him on and like an idiot he took the bait. You learn more about Cerberus and his attitude about them and Alliance, more of his run with the Batarians and his previous relationship with Miranda. I especially like how Shepard turned the dial back from flirty to complete ice queen. 

But even the language he uses, he thought nothing about sleeping around with his female bosses and treat her as an acquisition, the prize. Did he think it was really that easy?

Given femShep's tone, you can't really blame him for thinking it would be easy

Also, it appeared to me she thought likewise. So really, just a bit of good old fun in the sack on a suicide mission, for both of them. It's the parts that suggested it was intended to be more that feel incongruous, and the contrast in tone that makes the whole thing feel like a parody.

I'm not missing the parody... my point was that IF the player wants to do something else with how they characterize their FemShep, the strong inflection in Hale's voice makes that more difficult.  I also said, waaay back in my first post that her inflection was sometimes a good thing and sometimes not so good a thing... and that I merely prefered Meer...

@everyone - Why am I taking such heat for this???

Honestly, the thought of Cerberus spying on Shepard's every move on the Normandy make me think twice about the whole sleeping around thing in ME2. I always back out last minute because I can't bear putting my bae through such indignity. Plus, its kinda inconsiderate since most of the crew were kidnapped and there's a possibility of them being turned into reaper smoothie... but the Commander need to get laid first. 

Besides, she could handle being sexually-frustrated for a few months until she got her man back. I like playing ME2 with FemShep being a straight up angry cold b*tch.

Sorry - That last part was just cause I was feeling a little ganged up upon... confused about why my original comments generated so many other responses.

It was in the case of my femshep, but he shouldn't flatter himself too much over that though, as he only got the prize because he was the only passable option.