#you're gonna tell me that toph and katara werent like this...well...it d because during the show none of them were in relationships | Explore Tumblr posts and blogs

did-we-imagine · 11 months ago

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Tbh i totally agree she was done so dirty in TLOK. Even highlighted by the fact that she didn't get any statue unlike the rest of the gaang...

it is literally so insane to me that katara directly says "i don't want to heal, i want to fight" in the waterbending master and people decide to either ignore her saying that or completely discount it as her just wanting to fight bc of the war to justify the butchery of her character in legend of korra.

#katara #pro katara #anti bryke #she literally said what she wanted #why do people act like she doesn’t know what she's talking about #god forbid a woman knows and declares what she wants smh #tbh idk #i prefer zutara but i feel it s a writing problem more than a shipping one though #because they could have made her as arm candy for zuko too which would have sucked #in general it feels to me that the show has issues writing women in relationships overall even though it's not glaring at first glance :#y'all listen to me and you'll understand what i mean #like basically suki and mai and yue were all not super developed and a good chunk of their appearances were centered more about their BFs #than themselves and im not even dissing them because i like them and i wish we got to know them better #you're gonna tell me that toph and katara werent like this...well...it d because during the show none of them were in relationships #and in tlok katara who had a “stable longterm” relationship was relegated to a background character whose badassery was very downplayed #suki and mai never appeared they werent even mentioned...#the only one whose badassery wasnt downplayed was toph...notice how toph was single and that they literally handwaved her 2 bfs/husbands to #justify her having 2 daughters they coulda written them as adopted daughters instead of bio and it woumdnt have changed anything since #she was single #it's as if the writers fall into the terrible mistake of making good female characters satellite love interests #even the moms and the older ladies aside from grangran & hama(though grangran's part is super minor and hama is like in 1 or 2 eps)#whereas iroh/pakku/bumi/other older men are all common fixtures #it's insidious but it didn't come out of thin air #it's not to say that the show is horrible misogynistic propaganda or sth lol but they definitely have a problem with how they deal with #female characters at times

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