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Unisex bathrooms exist in some places; I know guys who shave their legs, and have you ever heard of Joan of Ark or Mother Jones? It's not that a larger number of women aren't regarded as heroines because of oppression, it's because that's just the way our civilization has been for thousands of years. In these times, an artist won't make the protagonist a man because he/she thinks women are the lesser gender, it's because it's what his/her inspiration and influences have guided him/her to do. Hayao Miyazaki (Princess Mononoke, Spirited Away) normally has a female character for the role of the heroic protagonist. It's possible some artists portray their characters the way they do for gender-biased reasons, but that's not the reason why all women are portrayed the way they are. Our society is only just starting to be more tolerant and accepting, looking at our entire history, so it isn't surprising women and black people haven't stepped into the spot light totally yet. I think things are really improving. The two democratic presidential nominations in the US are a black man and a woman. A legally blind black man has just become the new governor of the state New York, so improvements really are starting to take place.