I am not uninterested in women in fiction, and prefer a story to have a strong female heroine, but I don't find it necessary. Maybe because I grew up reading such strongly male centric narratives (I only read translated classics, and literature written before 1920, really, when I was a kid. USSR wasn't big on pop lit.) I hate to have a stupid heroine who just is useless and trips over her feet, but if a woman is a secondary character, I don't mind. If a man is a secondary character? Depends but I am less likely to be interested.
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I am not uninterested in women in fiction, and prefer a story to have a strong female heroine, but I don't find it necessary. Maybe because I grew up reading such strongly male centric narratives (I only read translated classics, and literature written before 1920, really, when I was a kid. USSR wasn't big on pop lit.) I hate to have a stupid heroine who just is useless and trips over her feet, but if a woman is a secondary character, I don't mind. If a man is a secondary character? Depends but I am less likely to be interested.