I'm guessing what you're trying to say that men have more "power-fantasy" stories, and women have less... (that's what the trope type is called btw).
There are a lot, but they usually aren't in like...the romance genre if you catch my drift? I find more female power-fantasy in things that aren't shoujo. As for why that is, I don't know.
I agree that most of the cases are like that, but in this case the ML suffered and suffers quite a lot. 6 years of that insane house, along with a lot of distain. If he did not have more power more than the FL, he would have been quite dead.
But the FL reborn as an infant toddler in a house of a bloody cruel tyrant/duke where she immediately becomes a target/punching bag... She is already at the receiving end.
That's the word POWER FANTASY!
The Fantasy Romance Genre is often quite disempowering for female MCs. No matter how smart and strong you are you always gets weaken, patronized or saved by the superior questionable ML.
Female Power Fantasy:
CLAYMORE; Light & Shadow, Beware Of The Villainess, The Pet Of The Villainess, The Duchess with an Empty Soul, The Lady and the Beast, Kingdom of the Queen and Majo To Kiketsu No Kishi.
I thought beware of the villainess has strong harsh FL and weak ML? The duchess with an empty soul also has strong power, ML is strong too but isn't both FL and ML in that story just have different types of power? I don't read the rest so i don't know
Welp ignore my reply, i think i misunderstood your comment lol, i totally missed that 'female power fantasy'
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Yeah a lot of my fav female power fantasy series don't involve romance...
People usually misunderstand because it's not about women who have magical abilities, it's about showing off women being badasses and wielding said power in an active leadership position.
Like 12 Kingdoms, Birdy the Mighty, Shinsekai Yori, Chevalier D'eon, Blood+. None of these are romance by genre.
A female protagonist always has to suffer the most in a story until she is saved by ML(s).
It is a nightmare/hell that you have to somehow survive as a baby in an absurd impossible enviroment. Why even putting her in the first place there?
Now compared to a Male protagonist who may very likely struggling in a shonen drama situation but he is given in a way better "options" and "equipments"....
He may gets help from other nice strong people but in the end he gets somehow his latent power awaken and becomes more untouchable/independent.
A FL on the other hand has to endure years of harassment longer and spend years on charming, praising, healing and relying on other people/men to survive.
This is so nervewrecking and toxic!
I noticed the different treatment of a male and female protagonist in many fantasy novel settings. And I must say the male hero is often better equipped with power which he will fully utilize it. But the heroine is contantly restricted and undermined by anything...
I don't care about the argument that this is how it is or that is realistic because it is rooted in IRL... BULLCRAP!!!"
Do I have to remind you that it is a fantasy genre where anything is possible::::