"It's wrong to say or imply Anya needed to be saved by someone. She's a grown woman, not just a victim."
Actually shut up. She did. She did need someone to save her.
She went to curly for help and didn't get it, then to Swansea when it was already too late to make things better for anyone aboard. (What was he gonna do? Kill Jimmy and spend the next however many weeks they had left with a rotting body?)
One of the main points of her storyline was how she had no one to help her. Fuck YES she needed someone to save her. Needing someone wasn't and isn't an expression of her being helpless. It shows just how alone she was as a victim and as the only woman out of the whole crew.
She needed help, she needed saving, she needed protection, and she got none of those.
I really hate the idea that victims of any kind of abuse, especially SA, should be entirely self-sufficient, oreven mostly so, and come out on top on their own or else they're bad characters. Is it cool when it happens? Is it cool when a victim rises up by their own will? Yes!! But it shouldn't be obligatory, and the alternative of being "saved" shouldn't be treated as a failure or like it instantly takes away all agency or personhood from the individual.
Victims do need help most times, and that doesn't make them any less capable, nor does it mean all their identity besides "poor helpless baby" is taken away. It's an awful thing to imply that needing help besides the one you can give yourself will automatically make you nothing more than a damsel in distress because that's what you're actually saying.
Also, to clarify, yes, making the abused NEED others to "make them better" and act like they're doomed without a savior is ALSO just as bad! Both extremes are bad!!