Board Thread:Naruto Discussions/@comment-8284722-20141222195100/@comment-3279282-20150103171212

They were written terribly, yes. Does that make Kishimoto a sexist? No, just a terrible writer, but we all knew that anyway. If he decides he wants to portrait a fictional woman in a certain way, it's his right as his author to do so. He doesn't need to cater to the feminist readers by forcefully creating a woman that he doesn't want in his work. This goes for all fictional things, by the way. I don't want to start a discussion about it, but saying that woman must be portrayed as strong and independent all the time, because everything else would be sexist, is just plain stupid. There are as many weak, love-crazy and unindependent woman as there are strong, dont-need-no-man and independent woman in fiction and every author can create any character he wants to.

Just my two cents, keep going.