Originally Posted by
JayPursuits
In my opinion, Its a mixture of people not really reading the books, focusing on those characters in team-related books, and media having a hand in their interpreation. There's also the fact that no matter how you slice it, white male characters backed by male Greek gods is going to give more credence, consiously and unconsiously, than the female, Greek (who kinda gets treated like she's white anyway) character backed generally by female Goddesses. There's a reason why despite decades of the female goddesses playing a hefty role for the character, her being a litter among Zeus's child is seen as granting her "legitamancy" rather than being the "Daughter of Hippolyta".