It was suggested she was a good cook in one of the fillers, though I don't remember which. Sakura is known to be a bad cook (her food pills taste awful). Absolutely nothing wrong with viewing good cooking positively - I just think that picking a mate because they cook well is a poor choice. Pick a mate because you are happy with them, then learn to cook well together - far better...
I am no authority on that. I actually think that being an assertive, strong and opinionated woman is an impediment to finding a mate, since so many males prefer the other type - good for them but I prefer myself as I am, even if it makes me less attractive... 
, but Hinata makes me uncomfortable, because
she completely wipes her personality out, and is a repressed and obsessed. To give one example - has she ever displayed anger in the entire story? Do you think that a person who never shows anger or lets themselves feel it - is well adjusted and normal? If she were a real person, she would need years of therapy...
I agree that kids should go with who makes them happy. But I think your bias shows by listing feminists (those who believe in equal rights for women and men) together with womanizers (those who try to manipulate vulnerable women for their own ends). 'Nuff said.
The only three times I actually liked Hinata were during her fight with Neji, her pep talk to Naruto before his fight with Neji, and her slap to him. Anywhere else she was totally useless (yes, that includes the Pain suicidal idiocy).
On the home maker - I thought her goal was to be a Ninja - assertive, resourceful fighter - not a homewife....
Oh thank you daddy!
Let me throw that sexist statement straight back at you!
And have a nice day too...
Sorry Naruto1217, but this turned more into an comment on saltal's identifying with Sakura, which she defended quite deftly so I'd like to respond. Sorry if this is considered E-Thugging.
Firstly, thanks for the reminder about the good cook/ bad cook opposition. I forgot about those food pills ^_^
1st Bold: I did not see it that way, but appreciate the perspective. I thought that the assertive type usually gets the guy. Some guys are clueless (I speak from experience) and won't know unless you make your intentions clear.
2nd Bold: I can understand how the repression of righteous anger would be severely dysfunctional. If that's the case then Hinata would have more emotional baggage than she lets on. Perhaps the optimist in me wanted to see her more as not giving a sh*t towards what might make her angry (Nothin' to a pimp). Because really, there are few things in this life worth getting so worked up over that we can't sit together, smoke a J (short for Jaraiya), and come to a peaceful understanding. This being in contrast to Sasuke's get angry first ask questions last approach. Between the two anger issues who would need more therapy?
As far as lumping feminists and womanizers together: I sort of see these two as opposite sides of the same coin. It was more of a comment on not letting the extremes of disrespecting/ exploiting women, and treating them as if they're god's gift to creation, influence younglings' decisions. Same as romantic comedies, which I feel give kids serious misrepresentations of what long term relationships are about and how girls should act/ what qualities are actually desirable in a mate. My wife is my best friend first, a woman second.
Feminism to me is too often Femi Nazi-ism and from a lot of women I just get this feeling of self-righteousness (it annoys me equally in guys), but then it hasn't been in my personal experience to see preferential treatment toward men in the workplace or at home.
Here I would like to point out that, again being that this is a Japanese manga, certain aspects of Asiatic cultures may favor men. Feminist movements in regions of the world (other than America and the Internet) may be totally warranted, I'm not there and do not know. Below is an example I want to share to help explain my bias and outlook.
As a female, my issue with Hinata is that she seems utterly incapable of accomplishing anything FOR herself or
BY herself without Naruto's emotional/mental support. It's beyond misogynistic it's just...no character should be portrayed that pathetically.
Due to this I find her utterly unlikeable. I don't hate her, I just don't like the reason she exists. That reason is to be pairing fodder. She has absolutely NO other purpose in the manga which is really sad because she has the potential to have an amazing backstory.
Right now, we see Sakura really growing in strength and becoming her own person, meanwhile, in the back of the pack, here's Hinata just now 64-palming 1 juubi fodder and that's only because she was thinking about Naruto.
Hinata will never be as strong as the Neo-Sannin but that doesn't mean the only things she can accomplish have to be based off of her crush on Naruto. Come ON Kishi...:eww:
See what I'm getting at here? I think this is why we see so many of the positive reviews of Hinata tend to be shallow (I.E. "prettier" & "boobs") while the positive ones of Sakura tend to be someone writing a book in an attempt to defend her.
Prepare for Wall-o Text:
I had a friend in elementary school of South East Asian origin. She was one of many of my friends whose parents were F.O.B. (fresh off the boat). I am one quarter chinese, the rest white, and grew up in an ethnically diverse area of Los Angeles. This girl was like a sister to me (I already have two real sisters 9 and 12 years older than myself) and she was "into" one of my best friends I had known since we were 6. By the 8th grade (13, around the age of Naruto part I?) the two were dating, and I had the very awkward position of being a third wheel friend. I'm not exactly sure how it became an issue, but her father discovered the relationship and basically laid the beat down.
It was then that I found out many Asian households have a stick
DESIGNATED to beating their kids (don't worry her brother got some too) if they act up. I am only one-quarter Chinese, and my father is somewhat white-washed, so this came as a shock to me. Now, I don't want this to be taken the wrong way and for people to say that ALL asian households have such a stick, or switch, but this household did.
That isn't to say parents of other cultures won't just hit their kids with whatever is available, but having a stick for the sole purpose of discipline puts me at a loss for words. To my knowledge it only happened a few times, like when her relationship was discovered (or when she got an A minus on a test... jk that would never happen), but more than once is enough to some people. My parents preferred verbal abuse.
The two forbidden lovers snuck around holding hands and whatnot through high school. Eventually the two broke up. In her fathers eyes maybe it was a good thing he was such a sh*t head: She got into UC Berkeley and the boy fell out of the picture as college progressed. If they broke up because she was "not well adjusted" I do not know. Possibly, probably, but who are we to judge? I brought up this story to talk about life-ways other than the typical American forum-goer is accustomed to hearing. The manga you are reading comes from a culture that is not 100% like our own. Not saying all Asian kids get beat on the regular, but it exists in some places. Maybe Kishi can inspire those girls to gain greater autonomy too?
Hinata, to me, represents this type of repression. The repression of not being allowed or having the courage to express herself, then overcoming the limits set on her by her father, her circumstance, herself. The fact that she uses Naruto (her crush) or Neiji (her older brother type) as her inspiration is not for you to judge. Don't understimate Neiji's influence either: in many Asian cultures girls will become attached to older guys in a purely platonic/ brotherly way. Such relationships are important to those people. Most likely more meaningful to her than her relation ship with her father, who gets his jollies off of watching her younger sister kick Hinatas @$$ in sparring practice.
People use the bonds they've made to motivate themselves (sound familiar?). Besides that, what "support" does Naruto actually give her? He really does ignore her/ not know she exists (which could be innocent, I've been oblivious to females advances in the past) and she pushes herself through her own inner dialogue
much like Sakura. The last time Naruto gave Hinata support was in the Chunin exams. So can the NH and the NS all get along?
We don't always know what's going on at home (in Hinata's case we do), so give people the benefit of the doubt? Tried to leave Hinata's boobs out of the equation...
Again, I do not condone the beating of anyone, familial or otherwise, to get your way. Even though that's what ninjas do...
<3 :sakura:
