I will admit I am a bit guilty of this (mainly because I grew up in a family line of 6 living men amongst around 30 women) so the majority of the time Im creating families of fully girls and then realising I forget men existed and adding in a guy… but sometimes as well I feel like there are some cases where male characters truely are incapable of being the MC (cause with my story im writing, it revolves around the love of a lesbian couple… and to add the option of choosing to make the MC female or male would just make things heteronormative to me… especially when my story is designed to give LGBT representation more of a platform.) but yes I do agree men deserve to have representation to and stories where eligible to have male MCs should strive towards making the community for accepting towards male readers.
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