the tmnt quote seems to go that he struggles writing female characters since he feels he cant make them 2 powerful, suggests that its an inherant thing with them, but male characters are easier for some reason...
I found the quote here:
“[...] any time a girl’s on the show, they’re usually too powerful. And it’s just the nature of a girl for some reason, I don’t know what it is, I mean, this happened on Teen Titans, we had trouble kinda limiting Starfire and Raven’s powers; [...] I’ve been fighting it with April, with where we’re going with her, is to not, you know, not let her get too powerful. And it’s hard, sometimes guys are a lot cooler and easier to deal with within these cartoons.”
Sounds like internalized "boys are supposed to be stronger than girls” bullshit to me. It’s an unnecessary and untrue thing we’ve been taught socially for years upon years, and plays into the Damsel In Distress trope. “Girls are weak and need to be saved”.
Which SUCKS because April and Karai are great characters with great untapped potential. The fact that Irma got shafted and the writers don’t seem too keen on introducing many new lady characters really takes this show down a notch for me. I’m sad because this show has great art/animation and would be super cool if it were a little less of a Boys’ Only Club, ya know what I mean?
Sigh....
