Even though Toriyama said he has trouble writing Female characters (most Shounen writers say this) they end up overlooking their accidental gems and focus too intentionally on writing them as what they think women are in their understanding. Its why I did not like Gine when I read her description, but we overlook Celipa who is actually a better depiction of what I'd like from a more natural personality of a Female Saiyan based on BT3. The same effect is in Naruto and Bleach. The unintentionally more interesting females are written for plot and the focused foreground females are written in the Traditional-Wife box.(Interesting) Temari, Ten-Ten, Anko, Karin, Tsudande > (Boring) Hinata, Sakura, Ino. I think thats the flaw in Shounen writing.Cipher wrote:What's been done with Videl and #18 since the series' revival strikes me as upsetting and out-of-touch with one of the series' previous strengths though. And then we don't even get a female fighter at the Universe 6 tournament. It's not great, and it's not as good as it's been in the past.
By comparison even Pan from GT, gets the short-end by the fanbase rather. Beyond the generalized GT hate, she gets her bad wrap because she is "bitchy, annoying". While even though she had personality and character growth - people only accept the same traits of "bitchy and annoying" on male characters deemed "cool" like Vegeta, despite acting the exact same way comparatively. (While Vegeta was toned up moreso).
To my knowledge lot of Japan's & Korea's racist caricatures from the 80 & 90s, were adopted from western media, but they themselves don't connect it with racism because they don't have the history. They just think if we do it, then its fine.MCDaveG wrote:Well, you are watching Japanese series and sadly for most modern western viewers, Japanese culture is sexist, racist, and homophobic...
That's nothing negative on Japan, it is like that. You can say, that Czech culture is sexist, racist and homophobic as well. It's just that some countries don't have that developed correctness or don't have their minorities vocal enough, to stop these issues.