why are female protagonists so often sexualized?

Because they are female.
Sometimes also because they're male.

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>>137251677
Just Because

For the same reason you never see a fat dude or an ugly old man as a male protagonist: people care more about how your characters look at first, then they care about them once they get to know them.

It's a trope as old as literature, all the Greek heroes and gods were good looking and fit as fuck after all.

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what makes you say that?

>>137251818
This nigga knows what's up

>>137251818
yes you do. you see it all the time. then you become reincarnated as a god in a rpg fantasy world

>>137252044
that's besides the point

>>137252044
I don't get the reference.

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>>137251677
Because they are so often sexy.

>>137251677
No way Kirisu would wear underwear that fancy

>>137251677
Have the pic without the Trump stuff?

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>>137251677
>implying only feminine protagonists are sexualized

I'd post a picture of Lelouch too, if I wasn't too lazy to download one

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>>137251902
>Mfw seeing Rain modernized in Build Fighters

>>137252044
Nah, they usually aren't fat. The furthest they go with male protagonists is gloomy eyes and messy hair.

>>137253792
what about that little grease ball MC from accel world?

>>137251677
Why else would you have a female protagonist?

>>137251677

Hell with your question, what going on in that pic is more discussable.