Does Avatar: The Last Airbender get better?

[CyberCubed]

Originally Posted by plastroncafe

It's cute how you highlight your own ingrained sexism here.

Well this is just an combination of everything I've read about feminist posts online. I think the "hive mind" mentality comes into play here, everyone speaks with one voice and agrees on the same thing.

Weren't you just in another thread championing April as more than a mere Damsel in Distress?

Also...people cared back in the 80s. I know, because I was one of them.

Well I was using an example, 80's April was written that way because it reflected the time period. Had the original cartoon come out NOW I bet there would have been countless feminist rants about 80's April and how she's a poor role model for young girls. At least April was fearless and never cowered from the villains (that was Vernon's job), and she had backbone.

They might feel less "bent over backwards" if they added more female characters to their stories, rather than just limiting themselves to The Good Girl/The Bad Girl. That's the problem with token characters of any kind: they make it really easy for people to call your writing lazy and insulting.

What would you consider Asami then? I've only watched up to episode 8 but so far she's just the token love interest with no flaws other than her being unaware of her father's racism.

I maintain that if you have trouble writing female characters, it's not that they're hard to write...it's that you're crap at your job.

And if Ciro had accepted my invitation to a follow up interview, I'd have told him the same thing.

Just curious, is this why you've been bitter at the Nick TMNT cartoon lately?