such as domestic skills; for instance cooking (how the hell do you even know she's a bad cook!?), earning her much more hate than she really deserves.
Yeah, that annoyed me. It's an outdated characteristic of the tsundere type- okay back in the late 80's in a comic manga written by a woman (Ranma 1/2 by Rumiko Takahashi, character Akane Tendo, the first fully developed tsundere character. And Takahashi, while not not a overtly a feminist, was making subtle critiques on the restrictions on gender roles in that series- Akane's shame at "failing" with expected gender roles was treated with less and less importance as the series went on, while her strength of character was treated more and more sympathetically.
And if you look it realistically it's Sakura who should be excellent at cooking and baking considering she basically remembers anything she's ever read, and being able to quickly adapt and apply her knowledge in a highly skilled way- that's a key skill of the best chefs.
And she sure as heck wouldn't be making horridly bitter foods, this is supposed to be her favorite food:
http://washoku-taste...ma-anmitsu.htmla sweet dessert
On the other hand, Hinata is from a very elite family, and the non main family basically are the main family's servants. Hinata would essentially be like a woman from the Edo period of a very high ranking samurai family that permanently lived in the capital- the only thing considered proper for her to know how to make would be tea. Anything else the servants would make, it would be considered pointless to even go anywhere near the kitchen to do a servant's task. And in manga canon no thought of the least challenge to the way things are in the Hyuuga clan has ever been seen to even pass her mind.
And since I talked about one of the elite clans, here's an explanation why the Uchiha were different from the Hyuuga. The Uchiha clan, despite being elite- still lived similar to a historical battle ready clan samurai clan of the provinces. Intraclan ranks weren't so rigid in those samurai families and even the highest ranked women could and did cook, and even the men would know rudimentary things, because they were often in situations where they had to make their own meals...
Edited by ciardha, 16 April 2012 - 03:16 AM.
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