narusasu and the blatant misogyny
i’m in the mood to play devil’s advocate tonight cus you sns shippers thought you were safe from my lashings? lol.
anyways, sns fans love to claim they’re not misogynistic when they critique ss and nh, when sns as a ship/dynamic is literally in the same boat and, arguably, even more problematic. (i’ll make a proper blog about this soon.)
the way some of you niggas constantly villainise sakura and hinata just to defend your mid-off ship is actually hilarious.
writing whole think pieces dissecting sakura and hinata just to project onto them and paint them as these evil manipulative women who make naruto and sasuke “suffer so much.”
i’ve genuinely seen some of you put sakura and hinata on the same level as fucking danzo (huh?). i wish they were as villainous as you make them sound, but that would require giving kishi way too much credit. the man can barely write female characters to save his life.
and you really don’t wanna bring up danzo because we all know that if sasuke hadn’t killed him, your status quo bootlicker naruto probably would’ve let him roam around the village the same way he let the elders who participated in the uchiha massacre face basically no meaningful consequences.
then there are the headcanons…
yall make up these weird, misogynistic fantasies about sakura raping or forcing herself onto sasuke (wtf?), while simultaneously kii-ing at kishi’s misogynistic writing where her own motherhood gets questioned. or you insist hinata was just a surrogate or call her an incubator because you refuse to accept that she and naruto actually ended up together and had a kid. then there are all the fics where people get excited over naruto and sasuke cheating on their wives. like… how do you manage to outdo kishi in the misogyny department? you enjoy women’s suffering that much? yall are just as bad as the dudebros you swear you’re different from.
everyone also rightfully criticises sakura’s childish crush, persistence, and “obsession” with sasuke. but the second someone points out that naruto behaves the exact same way (and worse), suddenly it’s excuses you dig out of your fucking ass.
when naruto transformed into sasuke and tried to kiss sakura without her knowledge or consent, some of you genuinely tried to blame her for it. now yall know damn well naruto wasn’t planning to stop. the only reason he didn’t go through with it was because he got diarrhoea. but somehow sakura’s the problem?
everyone drags sakura for wanting to see sasuke pee when they were 12, yet we literally see her grow out of that childish, perverted behaviour.
meanwhile, naruto repeatedly acts like a creep, especially in shippuden. he tries to peep on sakura at the bathhouse, constantly uses sexy jutsu to sexually harass or embarrass people, and sakura is treated as unreasonable whenever she retaliates. somehow, i’ve seen people excuse all of this by claiming it’s because of his “repressed homosexuality.”
first of all, naruto isn’t a queer story. it has transphobic gags, and kishi is a straight man. please stop giving him credit that belongs to actual queer writers telling actual queer stories.
second, that excuse is counterproductive because you’re literally defending sexual harassment by suggesting closeted queer people naturally express their confusion through inappropriate heterosexual behaviour. that’s a harmful, homophobic stereotype that associates closeted people with predatory behaviour. but i’m supposed to take these arguments seriously?
what gets me is that you don’t even care that sakura is consistently the victim in these invasive or perverted scenarios because yall hate her that much. then you turn around and act shocked when people call your takes misogynistic.
and don’t even get me started on how quickly you rely on misogynistic talking points against sakura and hinata while simultaneously writing essays about how sasuke is a victim of misogyny.
the real victims of misogyny in this fandom have always been sakura, hinata, karin, and honestly all of kishi’s female cast. both the writing and parts of the fandom constantly reduce them to emotional punching bags or plot devices whose only purpose is to facilitate naruto and sasuke’s story. meanwhile, naruto’s own misogynistic behaviour gets ignored, downplayed, or endlessly excused.
but sure, tell me again how this fandom isn’t misogynistic.