It would have been really cool if Zuko was a girl though. Mostly because I felt Azula was psychotic in a way you normally see girls being portrayed. I don’t have any more reference points, just going off vibes here.
The lessons are simple, and we learn them well. Men and women are different, absolute opposites.
The heroic prince can never be confused with Cinderella, or Snow-white, or Sleeping Beauty. She could never do what he does at all, let alone better.
Men and women are different, absolute opposites.The good father can never be confused with the bad mother. Their qualities are different, polar.
Where he is erect, she is supine. Where he is awake, she is asleep. Where he is active, she is passive. Where she is erect, or awake, or active, she is evil and must be destroyed.
It is, structurally at least, that simple.
She is desirable in her beauty, passivity, and victimization. She is desirable because she is beautiful,passive, and victimized.
Her other persona, the evil mother, is repulsive in her cruelty. She is repulsive and she must be destroyed. She is the female protagonist, the nonmale source of power which must be defeated, obliterated, before male power can fully flower. She is repulsive because she is evil. She is evil because she acts.
She, the evil persona, is a cannibal. Cannibalism is repulsive. She is devouring and magical. She is devouring and the male must not be devoured.
There are two definitions of woman. There is the good woman. She is a victim. There is the bad woman. She must be destroyed. The good woman must be possessed. The bad woman must be killed, or punished. Both must be nullified.
The bad woman must be punished, and if she is punished enough, she will become good. To be punished enough is to be destroyed. There is the good woman. She is the victim. The posture of victimization, the passivity of the victim demands abuse.
Enough of this. I bring your attention to princess zuko and aunt Iroh
It would have been really cool if Zuko was a girl though. Mostly because I felt Azula was psychotic in a way you normally see girls being portrayed. I don’t have any more reference points, just going off vibes here.
From Woman Hating by Andrea Dworkin
This is part of the reason why I like the Monstress comic book series though admittedly I have only read one volume so far.