@The:
Are you implying that would NOT be completely awful, and that we would be in the wrong for declaring that it was?
Clearly it was a joke and something I hope won't happen. Don't get in the habit of thinking I'm a misogynist pig just because I disagree with one thing.
So even if you're confronted with a woman who's a remorseless, cold-hearted murder machine, refusing to hit her would be considered praiseworthy rather than monumentally stupid?
Personally, I'm a complete pacifist ideally. (aren't we all) So I don't really support violence ever. I also understand that our world is nowhere near perfect enough that we can solve some problems without it. I just mean that any sort of call for violence to be stopped can't be all bad.
That means that a discriminatory mindset will continue to persist. Yay?
That specific discriminatory mindset probably will persist, but I think we can at least yay that it will lead to less violence, possibly.
Oda directly stated he hoped it would resonate with male readers. Not that he hoped they would laugh uproariously at Sanjis foolishness.
I didn't know that. SBS?
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@CCC:
Eh. Not really? Nami stabbed her tattoo away… Doublefinger skewered her foot... Absalom molested her.
Yama was brutal, but Enel's zapping, incidentally, is a juicy example of double-standard-ery made just for this thread. Zoro, who had no problem beating up Ms. Monday and the Nun, suddenly realizes Sanji was right all along and lets loose with that crack about "She's a WOMAN oh my god how could you hurt a WOMAN?" while Enel, the bad guy, says "I can see that. Don't care."
Child reading Jump: "My hero Zoro has no problem with 20 million volts coursing through old men and male Native American knockoffs, but he won't tolerate it happening to a woman? And the big meanie Eneru is trying to say it doesn't matter what gender you are? I know what lesson I'm coming away with from this."Zoro's reaction is exactly the shock and horror I mentioned. The five survivors at that point had all fought hard and made it there on their own abilities, and they start dropping like flies in the face of Enel's attacks, but Oda had to stop and make a loud exaggerated point about Robin's gender, just because. It even goes against Zoro's whole damn thing with Kuina.
Yeah.. He's been pretty inconsistent with Zoro and women overall, but pretty consistent since this moment.
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I don't know, they seemed to take Violet crying to attack people pretty well.
Shoot, there's probably something wrong with that, but I'd take that power in a heartbeat. (even though I haven't cried in years)