I'll take the L on that, I didn't know it wasn't explicitly said. I don't remember any speculation like that either.
Still I take it from what you're saying that there were also no female custodian characters over the years, right? It doesn't help the misconception but it isn't the same as saying there aren't any.
I completely agree. What's more, none of my hobbies have a lot of posts. I myself am an occasional poster at best and I'm not interested in being one of at most 4 people posting in those communities. I'm thinking about finding a third party or otherwise foss or just better reddit client and just browsing.
Lastly, it's fucking impossible to avoid politics on lemmy, american politics especially. Even in communities that I wouldn't say are explicitly political, people find ways to squirm in some bullshit. I'm tired, boss. Mostly I'm tired of people being ugly to each other.