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Fenrir_Howls posted...

Starting off, insecurity is the part of it but its not main reason why. Hes sexist because his culture is kinda sexist. When the gets to their sister tribe one of things we learn are woman were not trained to be fighters and female waterbenders were taught solely healing.

Next, if youre adding additional elements youre shooting yourself in the foot especially since that wouldnt have time to go into those. Note the comment about the change suggested they wanted to focus on other aspects with the issue being its unclear what theyre doing with that.

His culture doesn't like foreigners. He thinks he's stronger than them because they're foreigners.

When he learns from them and wears their garb, it's cultural enrichment and overcoming nationalism -- which is slightly less offensive than sexism and has the handwave of no one in the audience actually belonging to the fictional nations in the story.

Again, I'm talking about a show that I haven't seen. There could be very intimate details about that I don't know about as to why sexism and only sexism can fill that gap. But I think Netflix would rather hurt the integrity of the storytelling and play it safe than to have any suspect content; even if it's done for a good cause.