I think this is part of the problem with writing heros, and with writing women, in this culture.
Okay, so the default writer is usually a guy, and he knows he has to stick a woman in the story, and so he has a girl, and he doesn't know what the hell to do with her. I mean she's the girl, so she has to be likeable, right, so you can't portray her with anything that might be truly disagreeable or make her seem like a flake or really truly weird, so hey, she likes boys as an interest. Especially in Disney, where Girls Find True Love and Get Hitched, and it's expected. And then to make it all worse, she's the heroine so she has to be accessible to all viewers (you've read Scott McCloud right?), which means she's going to be EVEN MORE GENERIC.
I feel like this shows up everywhere - comics, books, etc - and that the best way to handle female characters is to make interesting characters first, and some of them will happen to be women.
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Okay, so the default writer is usually a guy, and he knows he has to stick a woman in the story, and so he has a girl, and he doesn't know what the hell to do with her. I mean she's the girl, so she has to be likeable, right, so you can't portray her with anything that might be truly disagreeable or make her seem like a flake or really truly weird, so hey, she likes boys as an interest. Especially in Disney, where Girls Find True Love and Get Hitched, and it's expected. And then to make it all worse, she's the heroine so she has to be accessible to all viewers (you've read Scott McCloud right?), which means she's going to be EVEN MORE GENERIC.
I feel like this shows up everywhere - comics, books, etc - and that the best way to handle female characters is to make interesting characters first, and some of them will happen to be women.