No she didn't give them a chance. How does she know that she can beat a Leavanny, Sewaddle, and a Darumaka. Sure logic would state that Leavanny and Sewaddle would lose easily to either Unfezant or Swoobat, while Darumaka could easily lose to Swanna (though apparently to Skyla, her Unfezant was the one who beat Darumaka).
There's no logic to her simulations in her mind. She ignores most of the typings, and uses her own weird logic to justify whether she'll win or lose.
No offense, but you just completely contradicted yourself. You demonstrated how she uses type advantages and was correct in her appliance of them, then turned around and tried to claim she ignores type.
Unlike Fantina, at least Clay was at his gym, and merely refused to battle Ash most likely for legitimate reasons.
For one thing, the revival herbs might have been a life or death thing, or maybe just for safety, and I don't think we know why Clay didn't battle Ash the first time we meant. For all we know his loving brother died, and was on the funeral. He clearly went somewhere since Nurse Joy had to tell Ash that he returned.
I think it was just Ash coming at the wrong time, not that Clay just plain didn't want anything to do with Ash.
Clay initially refused to battle him because something had been discovered at a mine he owned. He was leaving the Gym to conduct personal business and refusing challengers.
How was he forced to not be a gym leader? He didn't want to be a gym leader any more. There was no "Damn, I can't be a gym leader because I screwed up, wonder what I should be now."
I worded that poorly. What I was trying to say was that the entire problem presented in that episode was because of Forrest acting as the Gym Leader while Brock was still in title the Gym Leader.
Those actions are wrong. You're just so wound up believing that Skyla is doing the right thing, merely because you believe Cilan can't have a personality and be his own character.
From what I remember all about your hating of Cilan, just revolves around the fact that he's not Brock standing in the background, making constant redundant/obvious facts about Pokemon.
You just lost all credibility, even though you were making a relatively good case to this point. I haven't connected the innate sexism in this episode's premise directly to Cilan at all. Cilan's obnoxious behavior, which I haven't actually mentioned in this thread until now, did not affect at all the depiction of Skyla and what's wrong with it.
See I believe the only reason why you're defending Skyla, isn't because you're siding with her and condemning the writers for being sexist, but from what I can remember, the only reason why you're siding with Skyla is because it opposes Cilan.
Wrong. But since you apologized, I forgive you for assuming this.
-.- Last episode was "racist" now this episode is "sexist"...gosh I'm a girl and I felt no offense what-so-ever...It wasn't saying that about all girls, they were saying that about only Skyla, unless Volkner is disguising himself as a male I don't get the problem.
The writers did not call as much negative attention to what Volkner was doing even though it was worse. The only person other than Ash to criticize him (iirc) was Paul, and he even found a (misguided, granted) defender in Barry. When Ash finally met him, he complained, then did something about it and it was over. This entire episode, on the other hand, was completely centered around as many characters as possible - suspiciously all male - slamming it in our faces how horrible what Skyla is doing is.
I think the sexist vibes come from the fact that the three male characters of the epiosde: Ash, Cilan, and Miles, are all morally outraged at Skyla and her way of doing things and determinned to prove her wrong. Iris, the sole other female character of the episode, has no reaction whatsoever. It may not be intentional sexism, but still....
THANK YOU. This is exactly my point.