Do male authors get accused of writing overpowered self-inserts at anything near the rate female authors do? Just bumped into another round of "clearly Mary Sue Farideh is Erin" and like my guy, I've said it before I'll say it again, if I'm anybody I'm halfway between Girl Dahl and [pick an erinyes]
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Which is sad because in my work I have overpowered supernatural men and women. I mean their elves, and changeling's do you want a boring novel where everyone works at the office then clocks out at 5 pm and no one learns to fly?
I loved them when I was a kid, but when I got older I realized "Wow... this 'hero' is conveniently perfect and always right... how boring."
(Though also I always want to ask if they mean the character who does the things I would do, or the character who does the things I want to do but therefore suffers the consequences that I avoid by not doing those things...)