08-02-2018, 03:49 PM
I think the explanation is a lot simpler. Most men are extremely uncomfortable with the idea of men being sexually victimized. Most studies of it show that men are even more unlikely to allow a sexual assault against them to go unreported than women are. The writers are almost all men, and their unwillingness to contemplate the idea of the male hero of their action series being a victim of a sex crime shows up in their depiction of all the characters they write.