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Undaglow t1_j4q50q0 wrote

I'm a straight guy and mostly prefer to read and consume media with female leads. It's really nothing that strange. I don't dislike male protagonists, but I tend towards reading female protagonists and so on.

It's not strange, and it's not internalised misogyny. It's just a preference.

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MaddogRunner t1_j4ruv1q wrote

I don’t know why you’re getting all these downvotes. I completely agree with you. I read my stories for the guys. Plus, with me it’s more a case of “overdone trope fatigue.” The pendulum has very much swung in our (women’s) favor. That’s all well and good, but it’s become a massive bandwagon.

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Undaglow t1_j4s0kfz wrote

Because I'm disrupting the narrative that there's something wrong with OP for not enjoying female leads.

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MaddogRunner t1_j4sch85 wrote

Yeah, “I don’t know” was the wrong term. I know exactly why, it just doesn’t make any sense. Also, I think a lot of projecting is going on in this thread (I deleted my own initial comment up top because I was projecting just as hard as the others, from the opposite side of the fence). The OP is saying she “cannot relate” and finds the actions and thoughts of females in books “hard to understand.” Nothing to do with “internalized misogyny.” More like a disconnect between OP’s narrative of what it means to be a woman and that of the books she reads(?)

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