Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-34129530-20140808162547/@comment-26808654-20140808184118

The characters you have mentioned are from a sexist time period. Back then cartooning was male dominated and "male superiority" was still in people's mind. Not to mention, inspiration for characters often come from a persons own personal experience and people of the same gender tend to hang out more with each other than people of the other gender. When you add all this together, you get this:

Classic characters we all love are created by men from decades ago who had a sexist opinion of women and the only real inspiration they could draw for female characters were love interest because they themselves had a crush on them. It's also the reason why there's more male characters.

Now before you start getting mad at them realize you can't really blame them. Given the time period and the fact that they had little inspiration for female characters this was all they could do. Recently, they've tried to go for female empowerment to make amends but there's only so many changes they can make. If they completely change a classic female character then they've ruined a great formula. Give it time and things will get better. Ironically, the worst thing you can do is protest. Feminists tend to make things worse (and a lot of their close-minded protests are annoying).