Even if they didn't sit down and explicitly decide they wanted to contribute to harmful stereotypes, every decision they made with Serena was a conscious one. Barely ever battles? One of her like 2 storylines is her crush on Ash? Performances are female-exclusive? Then there's the fact that the...
If a real girl in real life decides she wants to be a housewife or devote herself to traditionally feminine things that's totally fine. It's her choice and she should be able to do whatever makes her happy in life. As ii kanji said, Serena isn't real. She's not a sentient being who gets to make...
That's true, which is why I said "subsided a bit" instead of"has been completely fixed". The big difference is Sun&Moon doesn't have this weird, subtle "girls should just stick to dressing up, baking things, and looking pretty while the boys do the hardcore, epic battling" message like XY had...
Alain being a girl would have been super refreshing actually, Ash's main rival/one of the biggest battling powerhouses of the series being a girl would have been a nice change of pace. It's similar to how I thought Serena's storyline, with a few tweaks to focus on gender, would have been much...
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