I'm not particularly *trying* to be annoying by saying this - but aren't both of those positions rather extreme?
Deliverance does rather lazily use gender cliches. I think B7 is somewhat flawed by laziness of writing and plotting, mixed up with the good stuff.
I don't think it's enough to say 'well, a male priest would have grovelled just like Meegat did'. because showing an innocent awed man grovelling at Avon's feet (or Jenna's) would have been less dull, less safe, and less cliched. The writer didn't think of it, or didn't choose to do that.
Similarly, the plot could have had Jenna showing greater competence, and rescuing herself, but it didn't rise above the conventional enough.
On the other hand - I don't think it is *that* offensive as an episode. It's just lazy and dull in so far as it sticks to the bland conventions of adventure stories.
Alison