Its probable even the idea of a female protagonist came from the outside or was pushed somehow.
that isn't very probable at all.
This idea that it takes morally clean, perfect, ethically spotless and utterly respectful men to do positive things for female representation is a terrible fallacy.
The things that people carefully craft for fantasy don't necessarily have to represent the people they are in real life, that's silly.
If only sexually objectifying men wrote sexually objectified women, then what does that say about all the murders, rapists, antisocial individuals in TV shows?
Anyone who believes otherwise is just setting themselves up for a terrible wakeup call from reality -- everyone has flaws...and not all of them have obvious TV-series-esque sort of correlations with their works.
this is why the saying "Never meet your heroes" is a thing.
You find out they're people, just like anyone else