Are the Casual Sexist Remarks in This Book?

The author is trying to highlight the inequality of and perhaps how women were treated, even in his own day. Do you think louis purposely paints these kind of brave, multi dimensional female characters almost to go against the female stereotype? We see that with lucy, and we also see that with aravis in this story, i guess,. In contrast to lazrelline who's potentially depicted as one of these kind of stereotypical gender stereotypes.