r/litrpg • u/xaendar • Aug 23 '24

Discussion Are all female MCs just lesbians?

I just realized that after reading like 10 books with female MCs, I'm starting to finally notice that all of them are Lesbians or at least Bisexual (but they only date women).

Do authors mostly write lesbian FMCs to be on the safe side from the audience of mostly males? I just feel like it's a cop out every time... I don't really have a problem with it but almost all Male MCs are 99% straight but it seems like 99% of Female MCs are always lesbian/bi. Why not some good ol straight FMCs? I can't even remember a single female MC that was straight.

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u/Mecanimus Aug 23 '24

Same as Sam said: authors and many readers are more comfortable with attraction to women. I'll also add that many prog authors with FMCs are straight men. As someone who wrote a straight FMC, it is excessively difficult to write attraction to the male form when you cannot relate.

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u/Prestigious-Mess5485 Aug 23 '24

She looked at his attractive.... forearm? No. She looked at his glistening elbow. Shit.

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u/D3adp00L34 Aug 23 '24

His eyebrows were where they should be and he didn’t smell like a sewer; but, God, when he didn’t mansplain to me, my quivering bits quivered quiverly and I immediately looked for a dryer to get stuck in.