the long awaited "how misogynist is this canon female character towards takara" chart has arrived <3
explanation under the cut <3 be warned for mentioned abuse and one line implying incest in fumikos section </3
1st tier: speaks for itself...nayuta and power do not give a fuck about discriminating anybody based on gender powy's got blood to drink and nayuta's got doggies to pet man WHY would they?? PLUS. they really do love takara. power is power about it and nayuta had convinced herself she wanted to destroy chainsaw sibling's happiness, but that's their big sister. that's takara, one of the best humans they know, and they'd sooner convince themselves she was beneath them due to being a human instead of A Woman.
2nd: asa&reze exhibit internalized misogyny IMO (asa slut-shaming herself post 167, reze no doubt internally did the same considering she "seduced" denji for the sake of her mission...), and because they consider themselves so low, they put takara leagues higher above themselves, believing her to be the "right" type of woman (based off how she "truly" loves denji in a familial/platonic way, which is just ;-;;) whilst believing themselves to be the "wrong" ones...
3rd: yoru is above fumiko here only because she spends most of the story dismissing takara outright and only really verbally indicates her true demeaning thoughts to denji once or twice during war devil arc (ramble for another time) with enough ambiguity to make it hard to recognize she's putting takara down at all. his human weakling of a sister means that little to her, she can hardly consider her a threat to her and denji's "romance" as a result.
4th: fumikos whole character is about perpetrating the cycle of abuse/misogyny, so of course she'd essentially attempt to break down takara's refusal to do this (shown in her raising nayuta without any expectation of the "right" way a little girl should be). It starts off with fumiko doing things she knows will agitate takara, such as making unfunny "jokes" that imply she's jealous of fumiko due to her own unpacked romantic feelings for denji, and it ultimately cultivates in fumiko aiding in takara's mental&physical torture post church arc inside the tokyo detention facility as an attempt to "correct" takara. not that fumiko cared about "saving" takara, no, I think she was just giddy to exert power over somebody else via humiliation&violence, especially since takara "came at her first" (as in, she never approved of her and denji's "romance" and was even about to let nayuta kill her on that one part during church arc LOL). fumiko functions as a popular girl/bully cheerleader type to takara's outcast character, basically, hazing and demeaning her as means to keep the "natural" misogynistic pecking order in place.
5th: makima is THE most misogynistic woman to takara not only because of how long she had the girl under her thumb compared to everyone else here, but because of how planned her harm was. makima WANTED takara to keep chasing this unattainable goal of "perfect woman" (well, unattainable to a human like herself, makima no doubt believed herself to be perfect) because it not only made her easier to sway under her maternal influences, but because makima herself believed it to be something good that takara was so self-critical of her womanhood. Its a mix of her own wish for no nuance among humans, her own projection onto takara (its good for makima to be perfect, so its good for takara to want it), and proof of how she ultimately continues the cycle of abuse the government had imposed upon her. they raised her to be perfect, so she will raise takara the same, even if it means cutting away "undesirable" traits that make her her.
