Should Bioware continue making "strong" female characters?

I don't understand the obsession with Sara Ryder. In MET and all Dragon Age games, all the trailers and covers showed maleShep, malequisitor, maleHawke, etc. And that was perfectly fine. You can play as female if you want but canonically we all know it's male.

Female companions became just as bad. Dragon Age Origins and II were fine. Leliana and Merrill good girls, Morrigan and Isabella bad girls, nice and easy. In Mass Effect 1, both Liara and Tali were nice girls.

Here comes ME2 with MIRANDA and JACK, both horrible women. Miranda is mean and Jack has a potty-mouth. Jack is also bald and barely wearing anything. Like, wth? And you have characters like Vivienne and Samara who refuse to romance me in any way. Like I just don't get it.

Based on their personalities, I'm not sure I'm gonna like Vetra or Cora.

I don't understand the obsession with Sara Ryder. In MET and all Dragon Age games, all the trailers and covers showed maleShep, malequisitor, maleHawke, etc. And that was perfectly fine.
No, there was a femShep-Trailer - just saying. And I'm pretty sure that the Inquisitor on one of the DAI:Covers is female which was stated by Bioware (and she was shown as female in trailerparts as well)

You can play as female if you want but canonically we all know it's male.
Was there an official statement that Ryder would be canonically male? If so please show me. I play games for 2 decades now and I saw lots of games & weird approaches to females in them. As a young girl there were very few female rolemodels I could embrace in this kind of media and most of the time they were rather cliché and more superficial than anything else.
So I'm always happy to have a game that represent us females a bit more, given that from all the 10ths of thousands of games like 70 only have a female protagonist who is most of the time either bland, boring or half naked. The game industry just recently embraced the idea that females can be more than just killing hotballs. That they can have decent personalities and brains.
And I think BW like a few other developers helped to lead onto that path. And I have to say even there was no marketing as females for some games - if I have the chance to play as a female in the game I'll go headcanon female with it wholehartedly.

Female companions became just as bad. Dragon Age Origins and II were fine. Leliana and Merrill good girls, Morrigan and Isabella bad girls, nice and easy. In Mass Effect 1, both Liara and Tali were nice girls.
Here comes ME2 with MIRANDA and JACK, both horrible women. Miranda is mean and Jack has a potty-mouth. Jack is also bald and barely wearing anything. Like, wth?
I get it, they don't seem physicially appealing to you personally, same goes for the personalities they had it seems. That doesn't mean that everybody else has to have the same opinion though. I can understand you. I didn't like Miranda that much as a person she was at the beginning of the game but I grew on her to the end of ME2 and ME3. I liked Jack's personality and her design.

And you have characters like Vivienne and Samara who refuse to romance me in any way. Like I just don't get it.
Like stated from others in this thread both had very understandable reasons to reject a relationship (Samara had her codex, lots of life experience and a few daughters so enough brains to think about possible romaces wouldn't be that far fetched. She got a short and kind of weird romance part in the Citadel DLC though and Vivienne lost her lover right in front of you in DA:I - wouldn't be that gentle to jump right into the next affair, or not?)

Based on their personalities, I'm not sure I'm gonna like Vetra or Cora.
I can understand that you feel a bit insecure if you can like them - we practically don't know anything about their personalities. Most of the things that are discussed in other threads are assumptions based on the few bits of trailers and background infos we got - which is not that much either and could be laid out very differently depending on our own experiences, interests and opinions everyone made in his life. Just be open - maybe both of them will surprise you and you'll come to like one or both of them in the game.

As far as I'm concerned, Mario Shepard's distant cousin Mario Ryder is canon! :-P

My headcanon. Fight me!