Just because it's a lady he saves it doesn't automatically make it sexist. Ladies are allowed to get saved as well as guys....
I was going to let this drop, but the way this was phrased compels me to bring it up again. That's missing the point. Yes, it's a cliche, but it's a cliche that also has somewhat sexist roots.
Let me put it this way- why couldn'tve been a man James saved to make himself look good there? Why is it that it's almost always a
woman that is saved in that dark alleyway? Why did it
have to be a woman if the conversation was supposedly interchangeable between genders? Think of it this way, there's a reason I pulled the little twist I did with the Random Alley Vampire Ryoko fought earlier in the RP.
No, there's nothing inherently wrong with portraying the woman as a victim. Women are indeed victims too, sadly more often than men thanks to our society being fucked up like it is. The problem is the frequency (and in reverse, the vast majority of the time their saviors are men) and how this affects our perception of women as a society. But yet, this cliche normally doesn't grate on me
nearly this much despite these facts. Oh no.
It was the fact that this was set up to make James look good combined with "Sakura's" lovely little sexist lecture to Kiyoshi earlier makes a simple cliche rub me the wrong way far more than it normally would have.
