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So sometimes when I hear people say the female characters in FMA are progressive, I wonder if they’re mistakenly looking at skills (gun skills, technical skills) and not looking at what those skills are doing for this particular narrative and for whom. Also, Riza can “kick ass” with a gun, but the ideals she’s protecting with that gun are not her own. However, that’s not the case, and in her universe, her skills exist to serve her male counterpart. Some people see her mechanical skills and say, wow, that deconstructs gender somehow! - and it would, if Winry lived in the modern-day era on our side of the gate where she’d have to fix cars and machinery for a living. Winry’s up there with the rest of them - it’s just that, for this particular canon, automail takes the place of flesh and thus healing automail is equivalent to healing flesh.

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(The only exceptions to this seem to be Olivier and then of course Izumi and Sig: Sig exists as part of Izumi’s story, not the other way around.) Also, Winry-supporters sometimes argue that Winry in particular is a progressive character merely for the fact that she does not fit a “healer” archetype unlike many of her fellow shonen heroines from other popular series (such as, say, Sakura or Orihime from Naruto and Bleach, respectively).

In fact, without these male characters, many of the female characters would not exist, because they exist as a subset of their male counterparts. Riza exists to push Roy to the top Winry supports Ed in his quest to regain his body and Ran Fan serves Ling. But I still see a lot of female characters attached to male characters, or in the shadow of male characters. “FMA is one of my favorite series, and I (as well as many other fans) regard it to be quite progressive in regards to gender issues.

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Finally, of all the major characters the author could have made to be unable/chooses not to fight, it just had to a female, did it not, even though every single major male character knew how to and did fight. There was no need for that you sexist cow (no pun intended)! Like Sakura from “Naruto”, she has more 'pointless crying’ scenes than anything else. Nearly every scene she is in she was crying for some stupid, senseless reason! Arakawa even had her cry at the Elrics burning down their home, which had no reason to be done! Another example is the scene where she hit Alphonse with her spanner after he thought he was not a real person.

She cries far too much, it is over-to-top and exaggerated, and blatantly sexist and stereotypical. Winry could have been a good character, but instead she was made a ditzy, feminine, love-struck hysterical, immature cry-baby (a description, which perfectly fits Sakura Haruno, Orihime, and Pyrrha Alexander, and just how much they are insults to the female gender and real women in real life and fiction) who 'cries for those who will not cry for themselves, such as Edward and Alphonse’, which is just pathetic.

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