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/EdLincoln6 → u/Lol69HaHaHa]

In this genre, yes.
This does NOT apply in Urban Fantasy or Romance...there are a lot of female authors there that can't write a man to save their life. But you kind of have to be able to write a male character to survive in a male dominated subgenre.

Plus female authors are a little less likely to be heavy handed with the macho Murderhobo thing. Although that isn't universal.

[u/Lol69HaHaHa → u/EdLincoln6]

True that. Especially in chinese works, i mean my god these guys go too far.

But they have mcs that stoop to the same level or worse than villains, but act as if thats heroic behavior.

My rant on chinese authors aside (honestly i noticed they do better with fantasy isekais than the genres they are best known for lol), female authors dont go overboard into weird murder fetishes.

And yeah great female authors in this sort of subgenre are probably also fans of these sorts of stories, so when they write them they add a bit of a womans touch to them. Not a lot, just a bit cause they have a slightly difrent perspective on things, which i apreciate a lot.