Why shouldn’t there be new fantasy books with male main characters?

lumpynose · 2025-04-16T19:02:45+00:00

I use ereaderiq.com for downloading free ebooks from amazon. I'm careful to make sure that the book's author is a man, and that the main character is a man. In the about the author page some of them bend over backwards to conceal their gender and use gender neutral pronouns to describe themselves; I assume that a man isn't likely to do that and skip the books by authors that do that. I'll also do some web searching on their name to see if I can figure out their gender.

Finding ebooks written by men isn't that hard, fantasy or otherwise. The genre that I'm currently reading almost 100% is litrpg, also called gamelit. It's a sub-genre of fantasy. The overwhelming percentage of the authors are male. See also Fantastic Fiction.

Accomplished-Ice500 · 2025-04-17T08:49:24+00:00

Last essay is straight up bull. This why Manga and Light Novels are the way to go.

EL_overthetransom · 2025-04-20T09:56:23+00:00

Women control all publishing, and they only allow what they like to be published, meaning 'romantasy.' Then they use this to say 'men don't read' and continue publishing the same shit over and over. Complete circular argument.

Title	Why shouldn’t there be new fantasy books with male main characters?
Author	meeralakshmi
Upvotes	37
Comments	4
Date	April 16, 2025 5:22 PM UTC (1 year ago)
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