Is My Hero Academia Sexist? Yes

What is My Hero Academia's biggest flaw? It's the way the series treats its female characters. I explore the sexualization and characterization of the women of MHA, like Ochako Uraraka and Momo Yaoyorozu in comparison to characters like Deku, Bakugou, and Todoroki.

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Watch My Hero Academia, AKA Boku no Hero Academia, here: https://www.crunchyroll.com/my-hero-a...

Watch My Hero Academia Season 6 Episode 1 here: https://www.crunchyroll.com/my-hero-a...

00:00 - Introduction
04:16 - Part One: The Male Gaze
05:20 - "Fanservice," Huh?
08:30 - Mt. Lady, Her Butt, and the Story
11:02 - Bubble Girl Why
14:12 - I Don't Care for Midnight
16:13 - Meaningful "Realism" (CW for sexual assault and rape)
18:35 - Oh, sweet Momo
22:09 - The Worst Character in MHA
28:35 - Part Two: Underdevelopment
28:49 - Uraraka Deserves Better (And I Can't Pronounce Her Name, I Know and I'm Sorry)
31:21 - Mina Deserves Better
31:53 - NEIJIRE DESERVES BETTER
33:04 - Anime Only Issues
33:51 - Too Plotty for the Ladies
36:15 - Conclusion
37:56 - Chit Chat
39:04 - Secret Meme Ending

Reading on the male gaze:
Laura Mulvey's 1975 essay "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema," which introduced the idea of male gaze in film: https://www.asu.edu/courses/fms504/to....
I highly recommend all of John Berger's BBC documentary series Ways of Seeing, but especially episode 2 on the female nude:    • John Berger / Ways of Seeing , Episod...  . I also recommend the book version of Ways of Seeing, also by Berger.
Judith Mayne's 1981 essay "The Woman at the Keyhole: Women's Cinema and Feminist Criticism": https://www.jstor.org/stable/487935.
bell hooks' "The Oppositional Gaze: Black Female Spectators" from her book Black Looks: Race and Representation:
https://pages.ucsd.edu/~bgoldfarb/cog....
Tania Modleski's book The Women who Knew Too Much about Hitchcock's films. I don't have a link for the whole book, but you can read a preview on Google Books: https://www.google.com/books/edition/....