Then again, it should have just been a man as the main character. If they want to add a 'strong woman' element, they could have the wife of a samurai defending her household with a polearm after her husband died in battle, as would actually have happened in that time period.
That's the bit that really bugs me about all this crap. If feminists actually cared about making strong female characters, there are actually lots of ways that can be accomplished well, but instead of attempting that they invariably reach for derisive tropes because their true intention is to hurt the world that hurt them.
That would probably be a fairly accurate representation of my world view when I was 14, if I had ever actually bothered to think about it that deeply. Really I was just internalizing what the TV and my teachers told me as though they were perfectly trustworthy authority figures. "If I'm simply repeating what someone who is correct says, then that must obviously make me correct" is the way it's conceptualized as the conscious level.
Thank god I eventually grew out of it.
Quinn blowing a few nerds wasn't ever a big deal (except for her relationship). It became the biggest deal in the world at the time because of the incredible forces which were wielded against anyone perceived to be even peripherally related to the event. They even had a special session of the United Nations to specifically deal with Quinn's problems.
Where's deeper to go? When assholes get authority they always think their success is a result of their talents alone, and end up mistreating those who are actually doing the legwork to make their vision into an actual, practical, thing.
Just like how the assholes running all of society thought they could ditch the people who actually made it, and keep the rest, only to find the rest of it collapsing without that talent they abandoned.
The magic was the talented crew, which they laughed about while snorting crack off hookers in the executive lounge, before purposely destroying their entire way of life. Now there are no more such talented crews to polish turds til they shine like gold.
Gender norms are substantially different in Japan. Their sun god is actually feminine, rather the the masculine form it takes in much of the rest of the world. Just from personal observation, I can definitely see Jack Nicholson's quote about writing women, "I think of a man and I take away reason and accountability," when I look at many Japanese men.
Time will tell if she's got what it takes.
Fun story: Way back in the day Blizzard decided to implement a REAL ID (yes, literally the same name) system on the World of Warcraft forums to display people's real names next to comments to curb toxicity. A few of us posted our real names ourselves, to show Blizzard just how terrible the idea was. The results were predictable.