It's actually pretty hard to find stories with well-rounded characters of multiple races, or LGBT characters or characters that are not of binary gender or realistically disabled characters. It can be done if you make an effort, but your contention that *nobody* is leaving them out is, in my experience, so not-justified as to appear a bit bizarre.
If you aren't comfortable with people who advocate for inclusion of such characters in the field, they're pretty easy to avoid--quit reading far-left book reviews (and far-right ones--if there's *anyone* who pays more attention to the bleeding edge of progressivism than lefties, it's righties; I think they need a boogieman to push back against or something.)
Check out the book reviews on Elitist Book Reviews (you'll like them--they review about 3 times as many books by men as women, which should start to help with the "too many active woman characters" problem right there.) Asimov's and Analog magazines would probably also be good places to check for book reviews if you live in the US; they have similar ratios, and no women on their review staff. If you live in the UK, try Vector.
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Date: 2015-05-14 12:17 pm (UTC)If you aren't comfortable with people who advocate for inclusion of such characters in the field, they're pretty easy to avoid--quit reading far-left book reviews (and far-right ones--if there's *anyone* who pays more attention to the bleeding edge of progressivism than lefties, it's righties; I think they need a boogieman to push back against or something.)
Check out the book reviews on Elitist Book Reviews (you'll like them--they review about 3 times as many books by men as women, which should start to help with the "too many active woman characters" problem right there.) Asimov's and Analog magazines would probably also be good places to check for book reviews if you live in the US; they have similar ratios, and no women on their review staff. If you live in the UK, try Vector.