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Originally Posted by Shikijin
The fact is that men are stronger than women, so in a fight a man is more likely to win. Anything that strays too much from that becomes too unrealistic. After all there is a reason why most sports are not played mixed.
Anyway, the point of women in Japanese anime is usually to show that there are things other than fighting, which is an important concept in itself. One could even say that by wishing there are stronger women on par with male characters one is using women only to approve his own righteousness. If women have no choice but to follow the path of men in everything, then it means men's way is right and women's way was wrong.
Silvia was very important in the climax of Aquarion without the need of using violence. This showed her women's way was even more important than men's. It should make you think.
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I don't think there's any thing such as men's way or womens way, their are simply paths each individual human can, it would be harder for a woman to beat a man in an outright fight, much like it would be harder for smaller thin man to beat a large muscular man. It's not impossible simply less likely. Doesn't mean they shouldn't be potrayed as able to do it rather they are the minority rather than the majority.
But really this arguement is silly in the context, your arguing about piloting skill which isn't outright determined by physical capability (though it does play a factor), but even more your talking about piloting skill in a Super Robot of which physical capabilities play no effect what so ever.
In this context there's no reason why women wouldn't be as good as men in it and the only logical reason would be cultural, e.g for the majority of the populus women pilotting mechs isn't looked to great upon or quite simply isn't very popular. Though in this show it isn't much of an excuse.