(cross posted from my other blog)

A discussion on a site I frequent got me thinking about why I tend to identify more often with male characters than female characters.  In fact, I generally like male characters better than female characters and have a far longer list of male favorite characters than I do female favorites.

Granted, there are obvious reasons, such as the fact that I’m not terribly feminine, or the fact that I tend to like types of characters who are usually male – adventurers, for example.  But there was always some quality I couldn’t quite put my finger on that tended to put me off of female characters, even ones that “should” appeal.  Why did I lose interest in Buffy?  Why didn’t Alias appeal?  Why did I look at the adds for Bionic Woman and have negative interest when many of my friends thought it had potential?  Why, even though I’m a feminist, do I gag and run away from any fiction that gets labeled as feminist?