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>>176420
If you just write the general character first and make them female, then you'll run into the converse issue, where there will be folks complaining that she's not "feminine" enough. They'll accuse her of still being a Generic White Male template wrapped in a female coat of paint, who serves to further glorify masculine ideals at the expense of feminine ones. And then there will be some in the black community who will accuse black characters who act as you just mentioned of being Uncle Toms for not exhibiting any of those characteristics.
Frankly a lot of the people who use these lines of argument come off as SJW level idiots, and the implications are pretty dire. You smile when greeting costumers, shake hands, and don't talk in AAVE? Sellout! What, you're wearing button-up shirts instead of basketball jerseys and expensive flashy jewelry? White identifier! Why are you majoring in STEM instead of women's rights or English? You only think science matters because you've been brainwashed by the patriarchy! Don't like makeup or dresses! Internalized misogyny! Sadly I've personally had those last two used against me.
But buried amidst it all there still is a good point. Why bother making your character visually different from the norm if in the end they're still confined to a very narrow range of characterization? True, in a world without gender roles a lot of women probably would act just like your male hero, but there are still those who would continue to enjoy feminine things like cooking and fancy dresses, and still be just as capable of heroic things. Whether or not it's a "good" thing that they do, women exist who prefer more masculine or feminine things, and black people exist who are or aren't into "ghetto" culture. If you only write your heroes as if none of them do the latter ever, it's tantamount to saying that while Generic White Males aren't the only ones that matter, you still have to "become" one to.
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