ladyloveandjustice:

Winry Rockbell is so important to me from a feminist perspective (and important to me in general). Let me tell you why her narrative is amazing.

Please note I am approaching this from a largely western context as it’s the one I know. I’m aware Winry’s character and arc might have different connotations in her original Japanese context, so please feel free to tell me if you have some insight to that! This is just how I find her narrative inspiring and subversive personally, based on my own context, though I think it is fair to say Hiromu Arakawa subverted some common gender tropes with Winry’s character; tropes commonly seen in narratives on a global scale.

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