Meanwhile I'm sitting here with my partner watching the One Piece Wano arc and we keep laughing at how THE MOST EVIL GUY IN THE WORLD has not misgendered his trans child even one time. Or any of the other trans people him or his gang is actively trying to kill. Nor has anyone in his pirate crew.
The most evil guy in the One Piece world isn't even a transphobe and doesn't have any obvious transphobes in his like 20k member large comically evil pirate crew. That's literally how easy it is to not be transphobic. And yet it's too hard for folks like this.
My partner and I have thought similarly, but it's honestly funnier to me and more convenient to my talking point around it if even the most evil guy in the world isn't a transphobe, so that's what I go with.
I cringed hard when okama were introduced, which gradually turned to confusion as a bunch of stuff was perfectly respectful towards their gender identity despite their horrendously caricatured appearances. Still not sure how much of it is Oda's political understanding expanding and how much of it was a point about the fear of trans people.
Yeah same. I think the only transphobic person and/or arc in the whole thing is when Saniji goes to okama Island or whatever but even then he ends up friends and with a clear deep respect for all of them.
I think One Piece isn't perfect but it's significantly more inclusive than most anime. It's probably top 5% or better
One Piece is very popular with Palestinians. I've seen the Straw Hat flag a number of times from the resistance. Makes sense with how the Celestial Dragons behave just like zionists. Kuma's backstory with his father getting shot in front of him for being too loud reminded me of something I saw an IDF soldier do.
Late response but I'm still not used to that being the case. I remember when it was the complete opposite and finding someone else who liked it was like getting a winning lottery ticket.
The balloons are filled with the woke mind virus suspended in a pink gas that will be released during the parade once Joe Biden gets the command from China
I was feeling bad about myself until seeing this, but at least I haven't rendered myself unable to communicate normally with my algorithmically-weaponized sexual baggage the way these people have.
this dude approaches walmart workers like "EXCUSE ME WHERE IS THE CHEESE, OR AM I NOT ALLOWED TO CALL IT CHEESE ANYMORE? DOES IT IDENTIFY AS BANANAS? EVERYTHING ELSE IN BIDENS AMERICA IS BANANAS SO IT MIGHT AS WELL! HASHTAG GROOMER!"
That avatar strongly suggests to me that that bigoted boomerbrain really fucking missed the point of Blazing Saddles and thinks the bigots in it are wholesome chungus and based.
One Piece is pretty woke. Like I won’t go so far to say as it’s outright communist propaganda, but there’s a reason that this meme exists because One Piece is probably the furthest left you can get and still be published in Shonen Jump