Macross has a complicated relationship with gender roles that we've debated at length on the thread in the old forum. In short, there's a ton of awesome capable female characters in positions of responsibility throughout every entry in the series, which is great. But the original show from the 80s also has plenty of then-typical ideas about relationships and a woman needing a man to be happy and occasionally has some particularly gross dialog along those lines from characters who are otherwise cool people. (Then there's Plus, where a sexual assault is a major plot point - it's taken seriously but YMMV wildly on how problematic you find the way it's handled and the outcome. And 7, being a 90s TV show with a bit more comedy leaning than the other entries, has occasional bits where harassment/assault are treated jokingly, though probably less than the average comedy of that era.)