That's symptomatic of another one of contemporary Western media's many problems with female representation: the "male as default" thing is really strong. If a character doesn't HAV to be female in order for their part in the story to work at all, the powers that be just make the character male. Also, crowd scenes where more than 1/4 to 1/3 of the figures are coded as female are widely perceived to be more than 1/2 female! So writers, comic artists, animators, etc. usually end up with settings where men and boys make up much more than half the population, and it appears perfectly normal to most of the audience (after I took the red pill and gave it some time to get digested, though, I started perceiving more and more superficially innocent entertainments as creepy and unsettling because WHAT HAPPENED TO ALL THE WOMEN AND GIRLS?!).
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Date: 2013-01-08 09:10 pm (UTC)