What do you think of the opinion that Sakura & Hinata actually are well written because they’re intentionally terrible? Like Sakura being shallow, self absorbed, unlikable was intentional by kishimoto. And Hinata having very little personality outside of loving Naruto to the point she has doesn’t interaction with the majority of the cast. It’s like he couldn’t imagine a way to get her to interact with others when she was only concerned with Naruto.
I think Sakura was intentionally written that way, Kishimoto himself has stated he wanted to portray a "realistic" girl in her and that's what he did according to himself, he was just then shocked she happened to be unpopular among the girls audience.
There is this trend in the fandom in which they think everything was written accidentally because Kishimoto is dumb, like oh the silly little Asian guy that doesn't know what he's doing. But he knew, like Sakura is 100% supposed to be that way because Kishimoto in his misogyny thinks (or thought) that's how young girls are, very probably based on his school days. It doesn't make the writing less misogynistic just like it's not less intentional.
As for Hinata, she was never supposed to be more than a background character, that's why Kishimoto never expanded on her, and he's expressed several times he's shocked that she got to be as popular as she did because he never put any effort on her because she's simply not an important character.
But they aren't the only female characters that suffer from Kishimoto's misogyny, people just focus on them because they're the "love interests", but another thing we can point out in his writing is how every single female character in the series is male centered, even the ones the fandom likes and considers to be the "better written" of the bunch like Kushina, Tsunade or Konan, their motivations and lives revolve around men, the men in their lives hold so much power on what they do and think it's honestly like woah...
Speaking of Konan she was also one of the biggest victims of Kishimoto's misogyny the way she was killed off in perhaps, the most forced scenario in the series, because Kishimoto favoured Obito and his storyline with Kakashi.
I don't think we have a battle between a kunoichi and a male ninja in which the kunoichi won in the series, correct me if I'm wrong, but like Tsunade winning against Orochimaru is the closest thing to it and she still got the help of Naruto and Jiraiya. Then for Sakura and Chiyo vs Sasori, the women win but then Kishimoto has Chiyo say it's because Sasori "let them win" which I suppose is because Kishimoto hates Sakura and will never let her have anything but when you look at the bigger picture is a very weird pattern.
I wish people would discuss Kishimoto's misogyny in his writing without reducing it to a homophobic dig "Kishimoto is so misogynistic he accidentally made Naruto and Sasuke gay" or without only focusing on Sakura and Hinata and how it makes them look pathetic as love interests so it makes NH and SS look bad as ships.
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