[quote=@XanderHarris]
It's probably the result of everyone thinking 'well, those stories used to be mostly about boys, so let's go against the grain and make a female character'.

And from that we end up with almost all girls ;).
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I think it's less of that, and more of wanting to write a specific character that came to mind that so happens to be female.

For me, I write whatever character I'm inspired to write, and that turns out to be a female character. I'd write a male if I had a good idea.