Character Balance on TV

I've thought about this and was shocked to realize I actually prefer reading about male characters or watching male characters on TV.
Then I got to thinking about the WHY behind it all....

Finally I realized that it had a lot to do with the fact that most male characters just don't wag around all the emotional baggage that most female characters do!
Talk about knocking me over with a feather--but the more I thought about it, the more I realized that I'm just plain TIRED of all the female characters who worry, worry, worry about their weight, their makeup, their hair, their clothes, the fact that they are single moms, the fact that they want to be moms and they have no prospective romantic partners in sight and they are in their late thirties.
You know the plot line I'm most tired of: How hard they have to struggle simply because they are women trying to make it in a man's world!
YES! It's gotten OLD AND TIRED AND WORN-the-heck-OUT! (Hollywood has been pounding along on that plotline since the 1970's at least.)
Men struggle in Real Life to become successful too but for some reason nobody ever writes about MEN worrying about their physical appearance or their clothes. A successful man in a position of power is relaxed and confident and able to smile about little stuff. A successful woman in a position of power always seems to be portrayed as struggling to hang onto it--she's never comfortable OR relaxed. (The Devil Wears Prada comes to mind here.)
Nobody ever writes romantic novels from an ordinary man's perspective either. Although there's gobs and gobs of pornography about him getting lucky, I honestly cannot think of ANYTHING I've seen or read that had an ordinary guy getting all sweaty and nervous about first getting a date with his dream girl much less discussing it endlessly with his most trusted confidents unless it's in a comedy. There's nothing out there about him steadily trying to herd her in the direction of the preacher either.

My last reason why I prefer male characters to female characters is simply because male characters HAVE MORE FUN! Male characters get to go off on adventures which sometimes last several years and they do it without worrying whether they'll be able to find a date for Saturday night or bringing along 6 suitcases stuffed full of clothes.
:^|

Enlightened Sexism has things to say about tropes regarding women (sometimes it tries too hard for its show watching cred).

I think some of this is the historical construction of the female consumer. She is to be sold that she's imperfect and only by purchasing can she achieve happiness. Men are curried, they have success, this is a reward or a signal of that, has been the traditional messaging.

I'd have loved if Sam Carter hadn't been taken that doomed 'shipping route and did they really need her not noticing that Pete was a stalker?

It's a failure of creativity.