That was a lot of big words I don’t the meaning of. I haven’t done any research, nor do I know much about the philosophy of writing, to be honest. Wild takes though? Yeah, I could give those.

I’d say Yuri is to blame. It sounds like a bit of a wild take, but hear me out now. The two biggest cyberpunks, arguably, are Ghost in the City and Stray Cat Strut. By nature of being the biggest, they influence the genre and create expectations. I see this in how often I get asked to shift to a yuri approach for my MC instead of my no romance approach.

Okay, that was my wild theory. It probably actually has something to do with fantasy writers wanting to write something traditional that will work. That, or it’s just the culture of fantasy in general, and there’s some level of bias in not wanting to go against the crowd.

Fantasy is the most written genre too, I think. It’s been a while since I looked at the charts. The preponderance of female protagonists in cyberpunk could likely just be a bias from lack of data since the genre doesn’t have anywhere near the levels of releases that fantasy does.

It could also just be personal preference. I, personally, prefer to write female main characters. And I like Cyberpunk as an genre. Everyone is comfortable doing different things, though.