I don't have a problem with girls who fight. I really don't! It's just that the most common defense for not liking any female character in a fandom tends to be "well I don't like how people write female characters because they're always weak/well she doesn't fight/well ..." when the same traits are often forgiven or overlooked in male characters. Scheming women are manipulative bitches, scheming men are clever dreamboats; soft, gentle men are dreamers and idealists while soft, dreaming women are passive wimpy princesses.

The problem does lie in that both of those archetypes tend to be assigned to villainous and heroic women more often than to men, and more often than other archetypes are assigned to women, but there are a lot of strong women who never have to fight physically to be badasses. I just get tired of people treating it like a checkbox on a "strong character creation" worksheet.

It's definitely necessary to have the girls be less damsel-y in a shounen series like Bleach. And there does definitely need to be more variety in female characters! It's just that a lot of people put up this pseudo-feminist "well, I only like female characters who can fight because it's more feminist." Even in fiction where physical prowess isn't important, it comes back to that the girls need to fight.* It could be political/intrigue-based historical fiction with the best female character ever and people in fandom will still scoff because she doesn't pull a sword out and start owning people.

(*Bleach is definitely a series where physical prowess is important and from the little I've read I sure wish the ladies were less damsel-y, but my raving is more generalized.)

I guess what I'm saying is I've just seen a lot of general hatred of any female character, fighter or no, shrugged off with "well, it's because I'm feminist" when there's not actually any feminism there at all. I don't think you (or anyone here) have this, but there are a lot of people out there who do.