There's Something Weird About Fiction Stories
One can't really say what makes the weirdness, so let's share and see if you, fellow readers, could notice something.
Some stories are written from a first person point of view; it seems that it's readable, provided it retains one's interest, irregardless of whether the character is male or female. For example, Divergent Series. Then, there's like The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel series also seems interesting, written in 3rd person's point of view. One didn't really read much English fiction, so others like Harry Potter or others one isn't sure how the plot moves. Conclusion is, it's readable. You can replace yourself with the character and there feel no separation; probably because the author made it seemingly fit. It does not, however, works that way in Chinese novels.
Probably because of the genre one reads about (玄幻，科幻). In brief, one can only read those whom protagonists are male and not female. It seems one could not treat oneself as a female like one in English novels. If you really want one reason that one could identify, it's being too gender-stereotyped. Ok, as male protagonists, there are 2 types of stories: one with girls, and one without. Girls, could be a single girl, or dozens of them. Sometimes, the male protagonist meet at least a single girl everytime he moves place, so that's multiple woman. And the women will stick to the protagonist as if they can't live without him. Then, single woman are better; yet it seems there still gives the impression of the stereotype, even if the woman is also a strong woman, it's more of a leaf to the flower (the flower being the male protagonist, the female the leaf). Then, in contrary, female as the protagonist of the story also identifies such: be it they're strong, superb, or whatever, it seems that it's how a strong woman would act out, which as a male, one can't put one's shoes to "being" one. If you can understand what one means: while you can emphatize with someone and tries to understand what they speak in their own words, you're not them. If that explains better...
In first thought, one thought it may have something to do with the third-person view instead of first-person view; because when you see in first-person view, you'd get sucked to forget the gender and continues watching as "I", your ego, unless in specific scenes when the protagonist met her boyfriend/his girlfriend/whatsoever relationship that reminds. One don't know.
Then, it probably have something to do with the language written. One doesn't relate very strongly when the text were written in English than if they were written in Chinese. It gives a different impression and different feeling saying the same sentence translated in different language. That probably have something to do with it.
And finally, because one seldom reads English Fiction novel, it probably is one's inexperience and only reading those that are interesting that causes; while for Chinese novels one'd been reading this for a decade long that, with a few occasional monthly pause, it's been almost all time long. So that may identifies as another.
In conclusion, fiction stories are weird. Some can be read irregardless of its gender; other text can't. That's the main difference one wants to speak about -- main feelings that feels weird. Though, one can't identify what's the exact cause of this weirdness...
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