Because the main character enjoys the male privilege of not facing that sexism, the reader/writer also enjoys the privilege of ever having to confront a direct confrontation with it.
Which, really, is where my interest withers up and dies. Because Naruto does just have male privilege, it wallows in it more than anything else I've seen in recent years except maybe for Stargate: Atlantis. If you look back at the original post, I think Kishimoto is very much self-aware of the sexism-institutionalized and otherwise-and that self-awareness makes it more obvious. That he knows about the sexism and does nothing about it, and instead chooses to focus on the boys-and it is a choice to consistently do so, and since it's a world he created, it is sexism he created and included, and enforces-and constantly rubs our faces in the fact that the girls will never be as good only makes it worse, because he's not only choosing not to do anything about it, but the way he does it says it's ok and even natural.
Re: I'm sorry. When I go over the word limit, I should really take the hint.
Which, really, is where my interest withers up and dies. Because Naruto does just have male privilege, it wallows in it more than anything else I've seen in recent years except maybe for Stargate: Atlantis. If you look back at the original post, I think Kishimoto is very much self-aware of the sexism-institutionalized and otherwise-and that self-awareness makes it more obvious. That he knows about the sexism and does nothing about it, and instead chooses to focus on the boys-and it is a choice to consistently do so, and since it's a world he created, it is sexism he created and included, and enforces-and constantly rubs our faces in the fact that the girls will never be as good only makes it worse, because he's not only choosing not to do anything about it, but the way he does it says it's ok and even natural.