Do readers prefer male or female POV?

[PennyThompson]

Non-binary people if possible, but nobody writes for me. I don't even write for me, a lot of times, so women.

I'm putting the finishing touches on an enby PoV story for On The Job, but everyone's experience is different so I can't say how well it will resonate with you

 

[Orcwords]

While I can enjoy anything if it's well-written, my preference for a POV on here is less about their identity than their attraction. Given the choice, I prefer stories where the POV character is both sexually and romantically attracted to women, regardless of that character's own gender. Naturally, the closer the perspective the more I feel this way. I simply don't have any emotional resonance for being romantically attracted to a man so such stories don't really do anything for me.

 

[Britva415]

I don't have a preference for male, female, NB or any particular gender of narrator or MC, but I definitely have a preference for that gender being revealed promptly so I don't have to discover many paragraphs in that I had the wrong idea about their gender, when the author basically accidentally corrects their oversight. Or so that I don't have to endure several paragraphs of knowing I don't know and wondering how far I'm going to be strung along before the author gets around to letting it slip.

This isn't about stories which have a deliberate good reason for obfuscating it. This is about stories where the author's oversight is just clumsy and unconscious. It's not even an afterthought, they're totally unaware that the reader doesn't start the story with this fact already in mind the way the writer did.

This flaw most often shows up in first-person narratives, but it has happened in third-person ones too, when maybe the MC's name is not gender-exclusive.