lizbee | (Reply)

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I am, or was, totally one of those people who complains about the lack of older ladies without thinking about Lo and Li and lo!

I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE!

And it's totally still an issue, although I think I get less ragey about it than a lot of other fans. Maybe because I came to AtLA after reading a whole lot of Tudor biographies, so it made sense that a pre-industrial society (or, in the case of the Fire Nation, a heavily militarised one) would have a high fatality rate among women of child-bearing age. So I think I looked at the absent/missing mothers and older women and assumed it was an intended consequence of the war, and not an oversight on the part of the creators.

(Also, I don't get the rage re: Azula's breakdown. It's not a fable about WOMEN CAN'T HAVE THE POWER, because it's being confronted with her own powerlessness in the face of her abusive father that breaks her.)