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slop >>>>> than any fictional literature written by the hands of any woman on this planet younger than 50 years.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/may/16/how-women-conquered-the-world-of-fiction
"Hannah Westland, publisher of the literary imprint Serpent's Tail, says she's not always confident that there's a market for fiction written by young men. "If a really good novel by a male writer lands on my desk, I do genuinely say to myself, this will be more difficult to publish." She believes that the "paths to success" are narrower because there are fewer prizes open to men, fewer magazines that will cover male authors, and fewer media figures willing to champion them – in the way that, for example, Dolly Alderton and Pandora Sykes have championed female authors on their podcasts."
i challenge even one dramafoid to name a single good compelling male character written by a woman 30 and younger, written within the timespan of 1995-2024
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The distinction becomes pretty irrelevant when you go young enough, yes. "Is this male character compelling to men" isn't really a relevant question when both the character and the intended audience are pre-pubescent pre-humans that aren't THAT different.
I referenced the later books, because those are allegedly about a properly teenage Harry marketed to an allegedly teenage audience. And a believable messiah-c*m-teenage boy in that scenario would be a very different person. There are ways to cover that without turning the story into weird p-do content — struggles with ego, exes he doesn't talk to anymore, etc.
The "perfect package hero that doesn't act like he's a catch" is a typical feminized romance trope. It isn't at all believable to men, but it makes women feel good when you remove the competition from other women in their romantic fantasies.
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Doesn't he act like an arrogant teenager with an inflated ego though
One book he's all like "I'm fricking Harry Potter bitches DON'T disrespect me"
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he's pretty universally an insecure cute twink the entire series. the end just adds sulking to it.
any emotional aggression he does show is pretty much "gotta kill wizard satan c'mon guys" and not at all the kind of ego that would develop from turning into teenage boy rich-wizard-jesus-and-star-quarterback-in-coed-boarding-school
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It's "dumb dumb dore doesn't treat me like the genius superhero I am I deserve special treatment
" and "why did my r-slurred friend become hall monitor and not me I'm fricking harry potter 
" and "why is my crush dating this Black Bvll 
I'm so much better than him I'm fricking Harry Potter 
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all of that is insecurity and whinging, yes. those are things people with no self esteem say to rationalize the self-doubt it causes. ego is an excess of self esteem.
a good character in his ridiculous circumstances wouldn't care about any of that, as it would all be easily replaced by people eagerly waiting to be his tutor and friend and Mrs Rich Wizard Jesus Quarterback.
A struggle with ego that makes sense in that context would be something like him recognizing that throwing away everything that inconveniences him might not be best for wizard society
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Wrong. It's very reasonable for him to have low self-esteem since he knows he never actually did anything to deserve his status
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still wrong. esteem is a response to evidence of social success. the basis of that social success is functionally meaningless, which is why Fake It Til You Make It works.
deserve doesn't mean a fricking thing when you were broke and bullied two years ago, and rich, famous, socially successful and horny today. it's virtually impossible to have low self esteem while everyone and their mom is figuratively sucking wunderkid's peepee in that context AND life is a million times better than it was yesterday.
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This is incorrect.
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