One piece is quantum woke. It's both one of the most woke anime ever and also one of the least woke anime ever and sometimes at the same time and sometimes in the same episode and sometimes in the same moment. I'll never forget how quickly my partner and I went from "oh good" to "are you fucking kidding me" in basically the same moment when the crew invited a prominent trans masc character to use the men's bath with them. It was simultaneously "they are a man so of course they can use the men's bath with us!" and also "AWOOGA BOOBA" Quantum woke. It's silly stuff. I still enjoy it though at least it has lots of good moments around some of those head scratchers.
I took it as "this is Sanji being shitty like he always is with trans people while everyone else is being normal". seriously though, Sanji is an incredibly transphobic and misogynistic character. every time he stops and acts human and empathetic, I love him. and then he's back to being the worst. he's the only character in media I've ever gone "I can fix him" with.
whole cake island almost fixes sanji but then he goes right back to being the worst. especially because we're supposed to think he's right about the transphobia thing
One piece is quantum woke. It's both one of the most woke anime ever and also one of the least woke anime ever and sometimes at the same time and sometimes in the same episode and sometimes in the same moment. I'll never forget how quickly my partner and I went from "oh good" to "are you fucking kidding me" in basically the same moment when the crew invited a prominent trans masc character to use the men's bath with them. It was simultaneously "they are a man so of course they can use the men's bath with us!" and also "AWOOGA BOOBA" Quantum woke. It's silly stuff. I still enjoy it though at least it has lots of good moments around some of those head scratchers.
I took it as "this is Sanji being shitty like he always is with trans people while everyone else is being normal". seriously though, Sanji is an incredibly transphobic and misogynistic character. every time he stops and acts human and empathetic, I love him. and then he's back to being the worst. he's the only character in media I've ever gone "I can fix him" with.
whole cake island almost fixes sanji but then he goes right back to being the worst. especially because we're supposed to think he's right about the transphobia thing
yeah. that comes about a decade after the most transphobic storyline i've seen outside silence of the lambs
also your average one piece arc is about luffy finding an island and saddling himself to the first revanchist claim to the throne, which isn't great