Sure, it's easy to shoot the rhetorical fish in this barrel by pointing out that grown men shouldn't sexualize kids' cartoons. But I think it goes further than that. This isn't about what She-Ra looks like. It's about what She-Ra teaches children about how girls should look.
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A show that is for girls should be teaching girls that they are worthy of respect no matter how they look. That they can be heroes no matter how they look. And grown men are basically saying "how dare you tell girls not to prioritize our opinions on how they should look!?"
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It's easy for me to roll my eyes and say "She-Ra's not for you." But claiming girls' heroes should be sexually attractive to adult men is saying that girls should be taught to prioritize being attractive to adult men. And that's way, way worse than being weird about a cartoon.
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I don't care if you were eleven in 1985 and She-Ra was your first crush. Kids of all genders deserve to get what white boys of the eighties took for granted: to have heroes who embody *their* fantasies, instead of telling them to embody someone else's fantasies.
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If a bunch of adult women insisted that He-Man had to be sexually attractive to them because he was their first crush, Misogynerds would riot. They would fall over themselves to insist that He-Man was THEIRS because they wanted to BE HIM. And guess what? Girls deserve the same.
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So yeah the obvious reply to "this thing for children is not sexy" is "my dude, it is not supposed to be sexy." But the argument under the argument is about giving girls heroes who are NOT designed to be sexy to grown men, and why that's important--and also why it's threatening.
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There is nothing the Male Gaze does not feel entitled to. When something is created without male consumption in mind, all hell breaks loose. That act is a huge threat to its power.
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Let's make She-Ra a lesbian and then really watch them freak out. Not that I really care if they freak or not. I just want to see more lesbian characters and She-Ra is a character that as a kid I wish was into girls.
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