Readers embrace all kinds of characters as long as they are written with emotional truth.

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.
But.
It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

You know there's no such thing as a complete lie. There's always some truth in there.

He was attractive. I knew that. And I knew that attractive people always got away with things.

The important thing is for the characters to feel real, and to be given the humanity they are due. That granting of humanity is what separates a full portrait from a stereotype.