This. Mai was her parents' ticket to further their careers. The only time Tom-Tom would have been favoured over her would've possibly been directly after the Boiling Rock, but then she became the Fire Lord's girlfriend so it would have been a moot point.
Fastest way to knock me out of a story is when people make the Fire Nation sexist. There are a lot of things wrong with the Fire Nation, but from what we've seen in the show, sexism is definitely not one of them.
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Date: 2012-08-07 12:05 pm (UTC)Fastest way to knock me out of a story is when people make the Fire Nation sexist. There are a lot of things wrong with the Fire Nation, but from what we've seen in the show, sexism is definitely not one of them.