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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Aaron L" data-source="post: 2741011" data-attributes="member: 926">Interestingly enough, I've been writing a story where the main fighter of the group is a woman, and the wizard is a man.  I really need to finish that up.  She isn't ugly, though <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" />  Not spectacularly beautiful, but not ugly.As for the topic, as others have said, this is fantasy and most peoples fantasies are populated by pretty people, men and women alike.  Ive read stories where the main female character was specifically described as plain looking (Crypt of the Shadowking came to mind immediately)  but usually not ugly.  Most of the stories Ive read male lead characters were usually said to be good looking as well.  I dont think its a matter of women exclusively being portrayed that way, although it is women shown visually more often than men.  There is a bigger tendancy to have women be beautiful than men (big surprise there!) because in our society it is unfortunately more forgivable for men to have doggy looks than it is for women.  The usual is for all the main characters in fantasy to be sexy, but women do have a fairly substantial edge on men in the sex object area, everyone knows that.  Its what comes of men doing most of the writing in the genre.  However, as someone pointed out, romance novels tend to have beautiful guys all over the covers, and I think women own the boat in that writing team <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /></blockquote>

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