There was a guy who has run a comic book store in Massachusetts for 30 years and he ripped into the industry and complained about how dc and marvel comics weren’t selling and said to quit it with the self inserts. Of course the marvel and dc writers attacked him and the lady that bullied Dan Didio into hiring more women at dc attacked him and EVS responded and said feminists have ruined comics and the good female writers are good because they understand that comic books are a male audience
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That's a direct result of diversity hiring.
Lego did a study to figure out why girls didn't buy Lego, and they found that, when boys play, they try to learn about the toy so their play is accurate; if it's a toy car, they want to know how fast it goes, when kind of engine it has, etc.
With girls, they want to put themselves in the game. If they have a toy car, they want to change the paint colour to their favourite and pretend they're driving to their friend's house.
Obviously this is a generality, but when you apply this to comics, or writing in general, you get a tendency for self inserts from women. Even a mediocre male writer will try to stick to cannon, but an excellent female writer will try to change the existing world to fit her life, which is a very big problem if you're trying to do interconnected stories.
And that's not even considering the fact that most female writers (these days) are hired for their vaginas, not their talent.
There are good comic writers who are women (Shaman King comes to mind) but they're exceptional in that they create characters instead of projecting them.
And also a good female writer in comics understands she is writing for a male audience similar to how Nicholas Sparks is a successful romance author because he understands he is writing for a female audience