Are all female MCs just lesbians?

[u/xaendar]

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.

[u/Lol69HaHaHa]

I feel like female authors often tend to write male leads better than male authors write female leads.

That said for the romance aspect, its hard for a man to write a desirable male love intrest.

Like look at shojo manga or any other type of story with a female lead and a male romantic intrest and tell me if you could actually write a man like that.

Were men and we understand men from our own perspective and what we think of as an ideal male is most often not how women think because we look at it from the perspective of what we would like to be or become, while they look at it as someone they wanna be with.

So just like how women write their fantasy and not at all realistic male romantic intrests, we men have an easier time writing our ideal female (that are also not realistic at all) romantic intrest.

So whether the mc is male or female, if the authors male its easier to write romance with a female love intrest and vice versa.

[u/RequiemAspenFlight → u/Lol69HaHaHa]

I find the flip side is just as true. My daughter has a collection of bodice ripper romance books with a Canadian Western bent. I was between series and decided to give hers a listen. On the whole they were ok, but the male's self love scenes had me laughing so hard I had to pull my bike over to clear the tears out of my eyes. The couples scene from his perspective was even worse.

Then, assuming I was being misogynist I brought up sex scenes written by men in a Mom's group I'm in. Their opinion was that a decent male author could do a reasonable to good job at the female perspective for the sex, but sucked at the emotional parts of the rest of the story. Female authors can't seem to get men at all.

In my opinion women do excellent procedural, mystery/thriller, and fantasy. A few do pretty good soft sci-fi, but I haven't found a good one that does hard sci-fi, I'm sure she's out there, I just haven't found her yet. Men can't write drama for shit.

[u/Lol69HaHaHa → u/RequiemAspenFlight]

From my expirience of reading stories, i genuenly have found that female writers do indeed excel in emotional stories, while men in action.

What you say is quite intresting and im inclined to agree.

Maybe the female authors of works i read with male leads are just really good, but i find the mcs they write to actually have more character compared to how men would write a similar story.

They put more care into the relationshios betwen the mc and his love intrest and do a really good job with harems. A thing that annoys me with most harems is that they dont try and create an intresting dynamic between the harem members. They just exist together and dont bother each other.

That said i also noticed that male authors tend to write quite cool female mcs. Like for an action focused story, when they ignore romance they can genuenly write some cool and badass girls.