Ply ah, my sweet sweet summer's child.
You overestimate humanity.
Stupid, flashy, ruthless mcs? The general idiot public love that shit. They don't give a damn if they've read it 5 times before, they don't mind reading it again another 50 times either. Why do you think there's exactly do many of these copy paste cliches?
And women readers? Again you overestimate them. The mouth says a lot of things, feminity, equality, and discrimination amongst others, but take a look at what ACTUALLY ranks at the top for them in terms of literature. Rape, submissive romance, abusive male leads would be fairly high up there I'd imagine.