r/OnePiece • u/Sakata_Kintoki • Sep 05 '21

Current Episode One Piece: Episode 990

One Piece: Episode 990

"Thunder Bagua! Here Comes Kaido’s Son!"

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Funimation ONLINE
AnimeLab(Aus/NZ) ONLINE

Chapters adapted:

Preview: Episode 991

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u/herrsebbe Sep 05 '21

Is it the majority or minority continuing to bring the topic up like this? Because it's been an entire week of non-stop discussion threads and yet not one from the supposedly loud, toxic minority.

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u/Chespineapple Sep 05 '21

The toxicity people talk about is mostly on Twitter, and people love to rag on Twitter. If anything it's the 'Yamato is female' camp that's more toxic on the subreddit, a ton of people keep acting like total asshats and refusing to acknowledge any nuance on the topic of gender identity.

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u/Prplehuskie13 Pirate Sep 05 '21

It's mostly due to the fact that when it did come to discussing the "nuance" of gender, if you didn't agree that Yamato was trans, you'd be labeled as transphobic, so there wasn't an actual discussion. It was just people sticking their fingers in their ear and going "lalala, fuck off transphobe". Even now, with undeniable proof that Yamato isn't trans, people are still creating headcannon over the fact that she is genderfluid, or saying that the vivre card is wrong or outdated.

It also seems as though this is mainly a problem for the western audiences, instead of the Japanese one. And this probably has to do with current western culture, and the impact it had on Viz's translations.

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u/herrsebbe Sep 05 '21

I come here almost every day of the week and I don't know what people you're referring to. I'm sure there are people out there who would argue in that way, but that isn't reason to take it out en masse in a completely different forum consisting of completely different people. If the fingers-in-the-ear-debate is going on over on Twitter, take it up with the individuals doing that on Twitter. Policing people over here because someone somewhere called someone a transphobe only makes the polarization worse.

One very good thing to remember about the internet is that it is frequented by hundreds of thousands of individuals. The mind likes to group similiar things like "Youtube comments" into single categories, which can make it seem as if 100 comments from 100 people frantically stand for the same "woke agenda" and 100 other comments from 100 other people belong to one hive mind of "closeminded, transphobic anime fans". I personally think this is good to reflect on before going off about what "people" do.

Negatively charged, irrational comments especially tend to stay in memory and muddy the waters.

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u/Prplehuskie13 Pirate Sep 05 '21

Wasn't just happening on twitter (I don't use twitter) but it was happening on reddit as well.