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Honestly I'm on your side about everything you said, or at least most of it. But I feel like the way you're using the already very loose term for this demographic, can come off as misogynistic or insulting. Because for many other demographics (hell even twilight), just use the pronouns that fit their demographics and don't include their sexualities. That's really as best as I can explain it.
When refering to your genres/tropes demographics do you believe it is correct to refer to them as women, femme presenting or (she/hers)? (I understand men and masculine presenting people also read these genres I just generalize as I assume they're in the minority)
I got into a recent argument as I was repreatedly having to reiterate and defend myself from being called a misogynist for refering to the creators and consumers of thses genres as mainly heterosexual women or just women attracted to men and how sometimes SOME of them don't see homosexual men as people and see them sometimes as objects of their desire for their enjoyment and male love interests as simply part of their self-insert character arc where they fix a broken or traumatized man with the power of love, femininity and virginity.
I understand that these groups and types of people are not the entire demographic of readers nor writers. I also understand that this trope and character usage is common in storytelling directed at women with a major example of this being twilight but was I wrong to assume that the demographic consistent mainly of women attracted to men?