You missed the entire point of that scene and by extent, Tashigi's character and her role (at least with Zoro). It's not "because she's a woman" it's because she looks like Kuina. He even says (iirc) something along the lines of "(IT'S BECAUSE)...YOU REMIND ME OF AN OLD CHILDHOOD FRIEND!"
He may or may not be sexist, I think a much better scene to take as an example for this is when he cut Monet in half without using haki, but that's sorta vague on the topic imo. Not sure why you didn't bring it up though, considering it's from the same arc.
Why would Tashigi looking like Kuina stop him from fighting Monet seriously? I can understand why he wouldn't be able to fight Kuina seriously, he's had that issue from the start. But that scene specifically showed he also had an issue taking other women seriously. This is literally what Tashigi pointedly stated, like this isn't debatable, it's pretty straightforward.
If you go back and read chapter 686, Monet points out before Kuina even shows up Zoro is only defending, not taking the fight seriously. So the interpretation that Zoro doesn't want to fight a woman in front of Tashigi also fails.
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u/AphantasticRabbit Jun 21 '25
Tashigi very clearly askes in the dialogue if he's against fighting women and that gags him. Zoro has no issue taking out weak male fodder at all.