>>38208I avoid straight romance too because I hate how women are written. Can we name any straight romance where they show a future shot of the old and gray couple and they're just happily hanging out and never had children? That's a big part that fucks me up. If I like a female character, she's usually a cool adventure lady, and to see her fate as being demoted to pregnant and/or nurturing just ruins the whole thing. Kids ruin adventure and romance, I don't want to see anything to do with the topic.
This usually doesn't happen with the gay male ships. Though with the trans stuff in the past 10 years, I've seen more art where they turn one female and she ends up pregnant anyway, so I can't even get away from it that way anymore. I've learned that I don't hate romance, I hate contrivances and unequal relationships that are treated as normal.