I will admit, despite my first annoyances, I thought FMA was a little progressive…until I saw this scene. Instead of being strong and confronting him in a brave manner, she started crying, sunk to her knees, looking pathetic and weak, despite the fact that she picked up a gun and contemplated shooting him! In addition, she does this in front of complete strangers as well as the Elrics. If one wants to be a weak, stereotypical insult to the female gender, than one should do that in the privacy of ones bedroom!
To make this even worse, the boy (Edward) had to jump in front of the girl (Winry) to protect her. The boy had to get the girl to put the gun down. The boy whom had to comfort the girl while she cried her little heart out like a baby! The girl had to be left in the protection of the Military, as if she could not protect herself!
How could Arakawa-sensei have wrote and drawn this? How could she have made her own still-discriminated gender be so pathetic? I hate, hate, hate (I am beginning to sound like Kefka) this type of scene in fiction! They are so sexist it is almost unbelievable! The female character would be crying and sobbing, usually falling feebly to her knees or into her friend/lover's arms, crying into his chest and being weak and submissive! Meanwhile, the male character is being not even shedding a tear (even if he does look sad, like Edward) is being strong and dominating, hugging his frail friend/lover! The only way I can accept scene like this if the male and female roles were reversed, it was two females, or two males.
As if things could not get bad enough, after this, does Winry try to regain the large amount of dignity she just lost? Does Arakawa have her stand up and bravely inform Edward that she was going with him, to help Alphonse perhaps? No, she has her just sit there, crying and being weak! What is wrong with you, Arakawa Hiromu?
At least in the 2003 Anime, the 'Winry meets her parent's killer' scene played out much better. Instead of breaking down in tears, Winry was strong and refused to cry, as she did not want to be a burden. That is very non-sexist. In the words of Fergie, "Big girls don't cry"
Any female who praises this scene is a disgrace her gender. I could understand a male author creating something like this, but a female? *Shakes head*. And that is just the tip of the sexism iceberg.
I shall be spreading this to all the fools who praise this scene.
One can cry and be scared and be emotional without being weak. She was expressing the intense moral dilemma of killer her parents killer or showing compassion.
You seem to have this stance that women need to be like men in order to be strong. And that all fictional females need to be strong. That is NOT feminism. Winrey is a well written and beautiful character and just because she can't kill doesn't make her weak.
That's why I love Sailor Moon. Because she's a whiny cry baby but she is deep and loyal and always pulls through. We need to stop viewing compassion and emotion as female flaws and see them as universal strengths.
Winry is one of the most poorly-written, sexist, stereotypical female characters out there. Then again, apart from the 2003 anime, Izumi and Olivier, FMA has some of the worst female characters out there, right up there with "Naruto", "Bleach", "Hitman!", "Fist of the North Star", "Dragon Ball Z", comic in general, and video games in general.
Oh, for more well-written, interesting, wonderful, strong characters who are female, we have Fang and Vanille; Hildegard Von Krone, Cassandra, Sophitia, and Natsu; Nilin Cartier Wells, Ada Wong, Pre-RE5 Jill, Joanna Dark, and most likely, a few others I cannot think of right now.
Calling being masculine ‘acting like a man’ is sexist. “Sailor Moon” is different. She is a hero and a fighter. She makes up for her faults. Her life does not revolve around men, nor does let a guy interfere with her decisions (and be a hypocrite by doing so) or ‘protect’ her.
Ed was not crying. She was just being the pathetic baby she is. You want a strong female character? Look at “Black Lagoon”, look at “Claymore”, look at Samus, Lara Croft, Lightning, Aya Brea, Ami Mizuno, and Princess Ashe.
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I will admit, despite my first annoyances, I thought FMA was a little progressive…until I saw this scene. Instead of being strong and confronting him in a brave manner, she started crying, sunk to her knees, looking pathetic and weak, despite the fact that she picked up a gun and contemplated shooting him! In addition, she does this in front of complete strangers as well as the Elrics. If one wants to be a weak, stereotypical insult to the female gender, than one should do that in the privacy of ones bedroom!
To make this even worse, the boy (Edward) had to jump in front of the girl (Winry) to protect her. The boy had to get the girl to put the gun down. The boy whom had to comfort the girl while she cried her little heart out like a baby! The girl had to be left in the protection of the Military, as if she could not protect herself!
How could Arakawa-sensei have wrote and drawn this? How could she have made her own still-discriminated gender be so pathetic? I hate, hate, hate (I am beginning to sound like Kefka) this type of scene in fiction! They are so sexist it is almost unbelievable! The female character would be crying and sobbing, usually falling feebly to her knees or into her friend/lover's arms, crying into his chest and being weak and submissive! Meanwhile, the male character is being not even shedding a tear (even if he does look sad, like Edward) is being strong and dominating, hugging his frail friend/lover! The only way I can accept scene like this if the male and female roles were reversed, it was two females, or two males.
As if things could not get bad enough, after this, does Winry try to regain the large amount of dignity she just lost? Does Arakawa have her stand up and bravely inform Edward that she was going with him, to help Alphonse perhaps? No, she has her just sit there, crying and being weak! What is wrong with you, Arakawa Hiromu?
At least in the 2003 Anime, the 'Winry meets her parent's killer' scene played out much better. Instead of breaking down in tears, Winry was strong and refused to cry, as she did not want to be a burden. That is very non-sexist. In the words of Fergie, "Big girls don't cry"
Any female who praises this scene is a disgrace her gender.
I could understand a male author creating something like this, but a female? *Shakes head*. And that is just the tip of the sexism iceberg.
I shall be spreading this to all the fools who praise this scene.
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Winry is one of the most poorly-written, sexist, stereotypical female characters out there. Then again, apart from the 2003 anime, Izumi and Olivier, FMA has some of the worst female characters out there, right up there with "Naruto", "Bleach", "Hitman!", "Fist of the North Star", "Dragon Ball Z", comic in general, and video games in general.
Oh, for more well-written, interesting, wonderful, strong characters who are female, we have Fang and Vanille; Hildegard Von Krone, Cassandra, Sophitia, and Natsu; Nilin Cartier Wells, Ada Wong, Pre-RE5 Jill, Joanna Dark, and most likely, a few others I cannot think of right now.
Calling being masculine ‘acting like a man’ is sexist. “Sailor Moon” is different. She is a hero and a fighter. She makes up for her faults. Her life does not revolve around men, nor does let a guy interfere with her decisions (and be a hypocrite by doing so) or ‘protect’ her.
Ed was not crying. She was just being the pathetic baby she is. You want a strong female character? Look at “Black Lagoon”, look at “Claymore”, look at Samus, Lara Croft, Lightning, Aya Brea, Ami Mizuno, and Princess Ashe.