#it's the reason why the very first arc of shippuden involved team gai and still managed to do absolutely nothing with tenten

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#i think it's largely because they're thinking of the setting as though it were an actual tiny little universe#kishimoto just made all of this shit up and let em loose like god and then turned it all into a manga like a nature documentary obviously#they're not thinking from a An Author Wrote This perspective#they're thinking from a 'in-universe this is Real to them so what is going on in their brain' way#which is the Wrong way when youre looking at a story that was written by an author because the AUTHOR is making the things do the things

that. exactly that.

but it's baffling how many people manage to only do that when it comes to female characters and not like. literally any other aspect of the manga

one of the most frustrating things about reading naruto meta is that every now and then you'll run into a post that's absolutely brilliantly thought out, has stupendous points, and pulls out all the stops on almost every level....

and you just have to stop and wonder how someone can simultaneously be so good at media analysis and so fucking bad at accepting that sometimes authors just cannot and/or will not write female characters on any level