On Pema and the "Homewrecker" Accusation

[habiyita]

August 18th, 14:53

One of my favorite characters from the new Legend of Korra series is Pema. She has a sweet, warm personality, she is incredibly hospitable to Korra despite having three kids to take care of and a baby on the way when the show begins, and her relationship with Tenzin is adorable. Pema reminds me of characters like Jin or Song from

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[slayerofgod]

I'll never understand why women treat their own gender this way.

[whitelilies22]

Now, if there was a like button, I'd click on it numerous times to show my support for your comment. I suppose this comment will suffice.

[schways]

Women against Women seems to be a reoccurring theme in the Avatar fandom. I appreciate how Bryke and the writers have developed female characters who are not only physically powerful (Katara is (arguably) the strongest waterbender around, Azula a child prodigy, even Toph developed a new form a bending), but support one another. Yet it seems the majority of the fandom chooses to ignore that in favor of ships that 9/10 times are not even canon based. Even Asami, when confronting Mako after learning of the kiss, stayed Korra's friend and attacked not her, but Mako for the incident that occurred. I truly do not understand the need to compare characters only linked by ridiculous things. The amount of Mai, Korra, Asami, and Pema hate is astounding. Toph and Lin do seem untouchable. I agree with practically all of your points, I just wish this fandom wasn't so harsh on women whose sides we barely even get to see, or the women that interfere with their OTPs.

[ginnekomiko]

Lin is awesome and I adore her, but for whatever reason, it didn't work out with her and Tenzin. Lin doesn't seem to hate Pema for it and we the viewer have very little context about their pasts and the relationship the three had to one another, so it's not fair to judge.

[full_metal_ox]

My own suspicion is that the things Lin and Tenzin have in common may also have made them a bit too similar: both bear the legacy of their legendary parents, under whose very statues they grew up--no pressure there or anything, right? (Tenzin, in particular, is in an excruciating paradoxical situation: he's the sole mature genetic and cultural heir and representative of a race of freewheeling nomads known for their nonattachment--who is fettered to his political duties in Republic City and his responsibilities to his father's legacy. The fact that he evidently married late in life (he was 42 by the time his first child, by a considerably younger wife, was born) suggests that he may even have been cut out for monastic celibacy--which was just plain not an option.)