The Naruto sexism Discourse we've had is directed at the wrong places.

[fermicomics@lemmy.blahaj.zone]

My problem is when people will read a book and say something like "why in a world with fantasy powers are men more likly to persue magic than women when their both equally capable of this must be proof that the author hates women"

I think a really good example is how naruto fans claim the author is sexist because most of the female ninja are weaker than the male ones and never "got" to persue their ninja job like the men". (note i do think the author of Naruto is sexist i just don't agree with this reasoning.)

When, in the Naruto universe, men and women don't have the same social norms as the real world. Not only are women in naruto from the clans are expected to and are forced to be ninja (essentially child soldiers) Most of early Naruto is literally both them the women and the men in the story lamenting the fact that being a ninja has stolen their lives away.

The women in Naruto going against the cultural norms of their society and actually freeing them selves from constant violence is not them conforming to patriacal standards especially not in universe its literally the exact oposite of that. It literally blows my mind that people make that point.

The sad thing about Sakara isn't the fact that she never became as strong as Sasuke and Naruto. The sad thing about Sakura is the fact that even after multiple years to think on the problem she still thinks that she could have solved Sasuke's emotional problems and trauma by punching him hard enough that he is forced to stay in the leaf. She never actually learned to communicate with other people outside of power and dominance and because of that is never truly able to empathize with either Naruto or Sasuke.

Also i just tend to look at fictional socities from a martrial realism point of view rather than a sociological