tbh i feel the biggest problem with rider's depiction of female riders (besides the fact that the wide majority end up dead/incapacitated) is the fact that even up to this day, they end up revolving around a man AND almost always have an arc about like...becoming more traditionally submissive/girly, after being Epic Girlbosses in their introductions
this is even evident on their fashion. i often think about how their first outfits tend to be like, jeans, suits and leather jackets and by the end most of them are wearing skirts or "cuter" clothes. it's really like, interesting
i don't think sentai or ultra or MH or other tokus are Perfect on how they depict women, but i think rider is the worst bc of how insidious it gets with this. the others either have Good Girls or like, ignorant sexism, or the really bad examples are like from the 70s or bc hacks like sakamoto worked on them. rider is just very consistent on purpose about these tendencies, for over 50 years now lol
Yeah. 😩 slowly being dragged into a more recent decade leaving a trail of fingernail gouges.
lowkey what gets me about reiwa girl riders is how toei likes to pat themselves in the back for being SO #Feminist while promoting then and then the girl always, ALWAYS ends up suffering one big sexist writing gaffe and becoming irrelevant. they only don't kill them these days. it's not even the writing staff's fault, they do want to do more with these girls, but the fact that bandai mostly aims to sell them to older (male and straight) otaku fans with only p-bandai merch while throwing them to the side and vetting any attempt to make them like. Actually Respected is so much
it's not the staff, it's the fact that bandai sees the sexism as part of rider's brand lol
