@MouseyTheVampireSlayer
The main problem with these things is there's usually only one girl.
The same with most movies apart from rom coms.
It wouldn't matter if one girl were pink and stereotypically girly, if there were enough other main girl characters who weren't and were a spectrum of looks and personality.
Having one girl character means she has to represent every girl. She usually ends up having very little personality, or else they cram all the personality traits associated with being a 'good' girl and she ends up being brilliant at everything with absolutely no flaws.
Girls and women are fifth percent of the population and come in all shapes, sizes and personalities. TV should reflect that, particularly TV for young kids.
That’s because the cartoons are generally made with boys in mind. So the majority of characters are male.
You could argue that programs shouldn’t be made with a particular sex in mind, and I’d probably agree with you, as they’ll always be some girls who love cars, and trains, and dumper trucks. But on the whole much of what we watch nowadays will be geared towards some demographic and they’ll be algorithms tracking that. We are sadly quite sheep like when it comes to stereotypes with the odd eccentric exception.