Do you guys think that while YA has a reputation for a lot of female leads

That translates to having well written female characters. Or do you think that despite the female leads YA fiction still falls into misogynist tropes.

I noticed that it’s rare for YA to focus on female friendships. Mortal Instruments had Clary and Izzy dislike each other initially, though Shadowhunters gets better at female friendships and villains as time goes on.

Bella Swan is the ultimate damsel in distress.

Hunger Games has quite good female rep. Katniss did have that one female friend in the books but the movies cut her out because she wasn’t that relevant, at least to them. She makes more though like Johannna. And we end up with a female villain to counteract male Snow. And we meet more women like Mags and Effie has great character development. Just maybe would have liked a female mentor and the major active cast did tilt slightly towards male I think. But SOTR has a two girl one boy trio in contrast to the two boy one girl trio of the OG trilogy.

Shadow and Bone had Pick me Alina but Grishaverse did get better with friendships as time went on. Just would like more female villains.

Do you think YA fiction constantly has Misogynist tropes and well written women.