i know you're not suppose to say "male characters tend to be more popular because female characters tend to be underwritten/given more boring safe personalities/be the "girl" character" because people who say they are usually the one's who are able to be interested in extremely bland male characters. but i think there is something to be say about how character designers have absolutely no limits with what they can do with male characters but the second you add "also they're a woman" suddenly they aren't allowed to make them too fat or too funny or too creepy or given any personally traits that might make than not sexy/unthreatening in a very narrow way and it's extremely tiring lol.
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