Have you considered that it's a children's story in the most part? Therefore it has to be super simple.

Also, set in medieval times, therefore gender rules do apply unfortunately, as well as mostly white people.

They only just made it so a first born girl could inherit the throne LAST MONTH.

Not everything can be written using today's rules. It's up to today's authors to level the field and write the fairer stuff more than ever.

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