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>Like or not, the Pokemon show has always had a lot of stereotypes of boys and girls.
>However, XY instead of advancing in equality, make things worse (at least in my opinion).
>I'm going to say the two most thing of sexual discrimination in the XY series:
>-Serena character and Serena's goal. Serena's character (specially at the start) was extremely girly, doing things that are clear steretotypes of girls (like having a crush, not battling much, Pokevision, her ideas of how dress should look, etc). Serena's goal is a very extremely goal because 1) it's girls-only, making the goal a clear stereotype, 2) it features various sterotypes of girls (styling, baking, dres-up, performing, not having battles).
>-The Mega Evolution Series. Outside of Ayaka, only men participate in the plot, whle the onyl female doesn't have a big plot. In those specials, I only see men having the power of the plot (Zumi/Siebold, Steven/Daigo, Lysandre) with little to no reference to female characters (for example, Zinnia didn't appear at all in any Act).
>In general, the Pokemon show has been gender oriented in certain activities (the the majority of Ash's rivals being male) but there were things that tried to neutralize the sex-preference (like Bainca in BW, Drew, Harley and Kenny in DP), Iris not having a feminine goal, males being able to take part on Contests and event he Stylist competition).
>But XY is apparently beign backwards with gender equality in some areas.
