At first, I thought the original original post was just arbitrarily using the Pokémon franchise to platform for transgender people, but the OP has modified a pre-fab model of a male Pikachu to turn it into a female Pikachu by adding the two bumps at the end of the tail. The gender dimorphism between Pikachu is fairly obscure knowledge so I can see why somebody might miss the point of that post.
I want to also note that this is something that actually happened in the show. There’s a particular Pikachu (not Ash’s) that shows up with a paper heart taped to their tail.
So, the show was already saying trans rights, this dumbass just didn’t notice.
From what I can find, it seems like that may have been Ash’s Pikachu in disguise with a cross-dressing Ash to enter a women’s only organization. It’s possible that there was another instance but I’m not seeing it. This article and the Trivia section of this article may be informative about the history of changing gender expressions in the shows and games.
Not trying to be offensive in any way but wouldn’t the correct term be sexual dimorphism instead of gender dimorphism since sexual traits are more physical traits and gender is more soical?
I did consider using the term “sexual dimorphism” instead, but within the context of the post, “gender dimorphism” felt more correct. The biological sex and chromosomes of the pre-fab Pikachu model would stay the same, but its outward appearance and gender expression has changed to become feminine.
As a real life analogy, lion manes are an example of sexual dimorphism, but due to either hormonal abnormalities and/or a shortage of males, lionesses may grow manes and occupy the masculine role; a mane is sexually dimorphic for lions, but it becomes gender dimorphic for the lionesses who adopt the masculine role in their pride.
Also, as far as I’m aware, within Pokémon media and even within the programming code, they do use gendered terms but they never say the word “sex” specifically, so there is ambiguity within the fictional universe on top of the ambiguity of our own universe’s terminologies and schemata.
You used the term while describing the natural differences between pikachus in the base game. That would be sexual dimorphism, a physical difference between the two sexes.
What we see in the OP could be termed gender dimorphism, but you were refering to the feature of the base game when you used the term, which is very likely the devs intended to be sexual dimorphism. The gender dismprphism mimics the sexual dismorphism to display its role.
I tried to do a little more research to define the differences between the terms but unfortunately gender dimorphism is not a common term used in biology and sexual dimoprhism seems to be used across the board
“I deserve to exist”
“wow, why did you have to make things political”
A statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
If any minority group was being systemically oppressed, I would absolutely love if the shows and games my children were into included messaging of the problem and how every human is inherently equal.
And you may think your wording is hyperbole, but trans people are actually being exterminated in parts of the world and imprisoned in others, and are actively having their rights and legal identities taken away in the US as well.
People upset about seeing trans messaging are the same people who would say “i don’t care about people being gay but stop shoving it down my throat” when they saw one gay couple kiss on tv that month while also seeing 100 straight couples kissing.
I disagree with several premises. I wouldn’t want my children’s shows to shoehorn in messages. If it makes sense in the plot for the characters to have and voice an opinion, or if it’s a cleverly written allegory, then that’s great. If they are just creating a character for the exclusive purpose of pushing an agenda (even one I agree with) it’s annoying.
Whenever someone says “people doing X, are the same people doing Y.” You’re witnessing some broad sweeping generalizations that are usually just the writers opinions. You can just remove the X statement.
I don’t like when protesters block my road on the way to work, or shove pictures of dead children in people’s faces, but I still can agree with protests against wars etc. Not liking the mode of messaging doesn’t equate to disallowing the massage and that’s fair. Personally, I encourage people to disrupt the actual power structure in place instead of the general population, but that’s just me.
You might have a point if trans people weren’t being victimized by violence at a massively higher rate. At this point telling trans people they aren’t allowed to advocate for their presence is the same as telling them to die quietly please.
You are not obligated to engage with their content.
Honestly, the fact that sexuality and gender are a political issue at all seems really silly when you break it down. Just let people fuck who they wanna fuck (with consenting adults, of course) and do what they want with their own body. If body mods like piercings and tattoos were this heavily regulated pretty much everyone would think it’s the dumbest shit ever. You can get a tattoo and a piercing on your dick but if you wanna remove your dick entirely it’s for some reason wrong? A woman can get breast implants but if anyone else does that’s also wrong for some reason?
Edit: Wording.
This is because of the role religion plays in politics. Religion should have nothing to do with politics in modern times.
There is plenty of homophobe, transphobe, racist and otherwise bigoted people that have nothing to do with religion.
And if people would take their religion seriously instead of using it as a superficial scapegoat, cherrypicking what they like, there would be no capitalism.
‘Legally’ isn’t the best choice of words here, IMO. I’m not saying we should be allowed to fuck minors (ew) but that the legal system has been used to opress and punish queer people. In some jurisdictions, it is legal to kill gay people. So using legality as your baseline is a bad idea.
Morality is I think what you’re getting at. But then you get into the weeds of subjective morality and that’s a mess…
Just let people fuck who they wanna fuck (legally, of course)
I don’t disagree with what you’re saying I just want to play devils advocate a bit with this statement. It seems sort of odd to caveat a statement that appears unrestrictive with a restriction. I understand why you did it but you conceded the fact that there should be limits on who you can fuck within a statement that, when taken at face value, should mean you can fuck whoever you want. That seems a bit cumbersome doesn’t it?
Replace “legally” with “with consent”
Minors can’t consent. Animals can’t consent. Beyond that, as long as everyone participating consents to it, I don’t see why it would be anyone else’s business
Pokemon is a non-political IP where checks notes the evil group usually torture pokemon, and oftentimes want to change the world to better reflect their ideal world.
Pokemon became political when checks notes again you treat people like people when they change THEIR body and don’t expect anything more from you than before
As yes, makes sense. What is next? A Pokemon that can transform in other pokemon? A Pokemon that dresses up like a different kind pokemon? I bet the woke pokemon company will release a black Charizard that is more special as the original Charizard./s
Fuck morons. In a world, where everything is political, they manage to point at a 9yo girl wearing pants in a movie and claim that it is political.
Edit: THEY ARE LEAVING THEIR HOBBIES AND PASSIONS OVER THIS! THEY ARE LEAVING THEIR COMMUNITIES OVER THIS! that is mental.
Ahh, the three genders: male, female and political.
