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There is no discrimination, sexual or otherwise. There is too much effort put into trying to second guess authors. They are story tellers with no other deep, psychological intentions in the main run of books.
The same 'analysis' of the works by many old masters is subject to much discussion, whereas what most of them were doing was simply painting what they saw (or the way they saw it) and not trying to be pseudo psychologists and paint something with a hidden meaning.