Just to clarify, because I am honestly confuzzled, what you're saying is that by not making the conscious choice to have female characters with a stronger, less sidelined role, it's sexist?
Well, yes. Kishimoto wrote a sexist series and while I think he tries, he doesn't do a very good job of giving the ladies their due. And my point about choosing to put more of a misrepresented group was me saying that ow one writes is not static or unchanging and that making a deliberate effort to change an aspect of your imagination that is dissatisfying is not somehow against an artist's 'vision.'
I'm not saying that women should be in every story or that people who reproduce sexually should be in every story - but it should be a conscious choice. It shouldn't just be 'oh, I never thought of any of the characters as females or having sexual parts, lololol'.
If someone was writing about asexual aliens, I would assume that they had a purpose to do so - if someone wrote a society about all women or all men, I'd assume they'd put some thought into it - why are there no men/women, what does that mean. And if the answer is 'there's no men/women because men/woman are evil' I would go, 'yeah, you know, it's sexist.'
It basically comes down to awareness and skill in writing. You should be aware of the fact that you don't have men/women/sexually reproductive being in your work, and you should have a damn good reason why.
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Well, yes. Kishimoto wrote a sexist series and while I think he tries, he doesn't do a very good job of giving the ladies their due. And my point about choosing to put more of a misrepresented group was me saying that ow one writes is not static or unchanging and that making a deliberate effort to change an aspect of your imagination that is dissatisfying is not somehow against an artist's 'vision.'
I'm not saying that women should be in every story or that people who reproduce sexually should be in every story - but it should be a conscious choice. It shouldn't just be 'oh, I never thought of any of the characters as females or having sexual parts, lololol'.
If someone was writing about asexual aliens, I would assume that they had a purpose to do so - if someone wrote a society about all women or all men, I'd assume they'd put some thought into it - why are there no men/women, what does that mean. And if the answer is 'there's no men/women because men/woman are evil' I would go, 'yeah, you know, it's sexist.'
It basically comes down to awareness and skill in writing. You should be aware of the fact that you don't have men/women/sexually reproductive being in your work, and you should have a damn good reason why.