I’ve noticed that whenever a piece of fictional media is touted to be “female-led” in terms of the creative team, oftentimes the characters are very much stand-ins for the creators/writers and reflect them in ways that don’t necessarily fit the setting (assuming the setting is not based on a location from the creator’s childhood, which tends to be the case). Even for non-female led projects, it is pretty easy to identify when a character is written by a woman vs a man (Outer Worlds has a character named Parvati that was basically a self-insert that the writer, Kate Dollarhyde proudly bragged about, for example), as they all speak and think from a modern day lens, regardless of whether it is appropriate for the setting or for what the character should be.
Contrast this with male writers who are able to write men and women from different perspectives in a way that attempts to match the setting, and I can’t help but wonder if the ability of perspective-taking is a masculine trait, which could also explain why modern entertainment runs into the issue of incompatible character identities within a setting or very unimaginative characters and settings in general. I expect this to become increasingly common as more and more women (and men embracing feminine traits) enter entertainment industries across all mediums.
Though perhaps this is an issue of increasing mental illness across the board instead. A YouTube video by David Stewart about how terrible of an idea writing a character as genderless is brought up a different perspective, that increasing mental illness (autism in particular) could be a cause for the inability of people to identify with characters that don’t look like them (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-i_2kRnSsX0&pp=ygUNZGF2aWQgc3Rld2FydA%3D%3D)
I’m not sure whether there is a definitive explanation, maybe it is a combination of many different factors, but I think it isn’t unreasonable to theorize that women are less capable of perspective-taking compared to men in general.
Women are more susceptible to in group bias which leads them to hold more left ideology due to it being collectivist in nature.
This is also a product of environment too since there are a LOT of female writers for Manga I respect and do excellent work in a field that is highly competitive and meritocratic. The West has removed that filter by installing diversity directives that removed the blocks that gatekept people out but meant those that had talent became successful.
Women in the west have less perspective because we treat them like kids, like Africa Americans, immigrants etc if you don't provide consequences and make everything easy for them, don't be surprised if they begin to believe the world revolves around them and then that perspective is reflected in their work.
The difference between compassion and narcissistic sympathy is the ability to tell someone they’re doing something wrong and to stop or face consequences. Women used to be more compassionate, because they were treated the same in turn. The victim complex has killed compassion and made narcissistic sympathy the norm for women and in turn every other “victim class” as the oppressed can do no wrong, and the oppressor no right.