In “Insecure,” “Love Is Blind” and “The Lovebirds,” these leading women are pressing straight straight straight straight back against dating bias within the world that is real.

A picture of her new beau, Andrew, from her phone in a recent episode of HBO’s “Insecure,” Molly (Yvonne Orji), home for Thanksgiving and chatting about her dating life, shares. With small glee inside her eyes, Molly’s mom probes, “Oh, is ...