hm...no, I see it differently. I don't really see a lack of agency in the female characters of these comics, they basically have agenda and everything. It's just that they do everything with that sidedish of sexy to appeal to the male reader.

In the romance genre the male gaze is not only a side dish, it's the main course. being attractive is shown as a form of power (same as in the male gaze comics, only to a higher degree) but since I perceive it as fake power it squicks me.

it's also the rape thing, or rather the demirape thing in many romance novels. where she "secretly" wants it. that's such a rape culture trigger for me. the woman that cannot simply want sex but needs to be coerced into it.