Did you also notice how the woman dismissed the fact that you can play as fem-shep because "boys would never play as a woman".
i agree, it's very similar to Harry Potter outrage because WITCHES!!! Burn them at the stake.
Yep...there is only one side showing gender bias there and it ain't the game - when it originally came out I personally enjoyed my play through as Fem-Shep far more as I loved the voice acting of Jennifer Hale (ever since Kotor as Bastilla), but a woman gamer I know (rare mythical beast right!) preferred playing Male-Shep and exploring the different romances.
And yeah before harry potter it was Dungeons and Dragons...even as far back as rock and roll, pulp horror/scifi fiction in the 1920-30's ...seems to always be an undercurrent of people with particular world views that dislike the fact things they find 'shameful/uncomfortable' are popular.
Even more egregious in my opinion was the mention of 'playboy' as if nudity in games is some kind of sinister plot to tempt children into watching X rated content as opposed to just being a part (a tiny one) of the story.
Sex is a fact of life, to not include it in a movie/TV/comic or Game that deals with complex adult romantic relationships and situations would be in my view even more ridiculous - does it have to be the dominant theme, of course not, but ignoring it will stretch credulity at some point. I think Mass Effect (and for that matter Dragon Age series) has done it rather well, its not dominant in the game, its only if you actively pursue it with an NPC and even then only if you meet certain criteria in talking to them etc, and it adds some extra dimensional to the characters as you would expect in a novel (especially so in the Romances in Dragon Age Inquisition which were more extensive even after "consummation").
I think ultimately though these kinds of panics don't matter, mot of these people are 'preaching to the converted' the industry is mature and strong enough to ignore such rants, and they only care about getting money in so will give the customer more or less what they want.
Supporting and replaying games like Mass Effect long after they were out, getting them on steam/xbox live or whatever tells the companies this is what people (still) want, so if they want our money give us more of this - and the mighty $ is far more influential than two bit commentators.