@Salfaro
And when we do get MCs that “aren’t pussies”, they’re usually either massive edgelords who torture anyone who looked at them the wrong way or massive perverts who literally cannot see a woman as anything more than breasts and a vagina, and half of the chapter is just them raping the girl into submission. Or both.
It’s almost as if going all the way in either direction isn’t the best path to take, and a good protagonist can be a mix of passiveness and activeness. And people who keep complaining that MCs are pussies just because they don’t immediately treat the world like it’s their playground should probably just go back to manhwa or xianxia works.