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To be honest, these kinds of posts are really annoying. I support trans rights and all of that, but the original post feels like it's just virtue signaling for upvotes. All of the " says trans rights" posts are the same. If some find it affirming then that's great but it makes no sense to share in general communities where it doesn't contribute anything.
I can't tell if you didn't look at the tail or if you're just not as much of a Pokemon nerd as I am.
Oooh, took me a while to get tbh. I assumed this Pikachu was always a girl, but they gave her tail surgery. I think it would've been more obvious if I wasn't distracted by the giant fist.
Politics is when people have rights.
Yes, it is
The post isn't even just a trans flag, it actually has meaning. The tail has a little 'heart shaped thing' taped on it so that means the Pikachu in the photo is transfemme because female Pikachus have heart shaped tails
THATS SO CUTE AAAA 😭😭
Oh wow, neat. Appreciate your comment I had no idea.
That is very funny, great detail
"I deserve to exist"
"wow, why did you have to make things political"
A statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.
Hey, leave my math memes alone.
Ahh, the three genders: male, female and political.
unless you're a gamer™ —then there would be two genders, male and political
Well, otherwise it would ruin your immersion
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.
There's a particular Pikachu (not Ashs) that shows up with a paper heart taped to their tail.
that's so sweet 😭😭
Oh that's cool! Thanks for pointing that out.
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?
today i learned... Thank you!
Meanwhile...
one out of three female Azurill evolves into a male Marill
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Azurill_(Pok%C3%A9mon)
Sadly, this only happens in generations 3-5.
Azurill looks so much happier after evolving to Marill, so good for them.
This is a really niche interaction, so I find it funny when some Youtuber comes across it.
There is one trangender NPC in the main series of Pokémon games:
She's pretty explicitly trans in the Japanese version and heavily implied to be trans in the English version.
Sadly, the implication is removed in the Korean and German versions.
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.
Religion is what gives these people the excuse.
It's their own prejudices that play into politics.
You must have your daily 2 minutes of hate, otherwise you might realize the people you hate are trying to give you healthcare and make groceries affordable.
There's a Pokemon episode where Pikachu tapes its tail into the heart shape to feign being a female Pikachu(was one of the handful of episodes where Ash cd'ed for something). Really just isn't political, trans pride colors and all.
I am saying this as someone who regularly looks at topics that are either very political or very heated or both and decides that I simply do not have the energy for discourse. Also how much of an asshole do you have to be to throw a fit over what would have likely been a very positive and wholesome thread prior to people trying to tear it down?
The most concerning part is that the JustUnsubbed post has a positive number of votes. Reddit really has become more deranged than ever
Justunsubbed is mostly conservatives bitching about their hobbies moving left without them. I went through the list a few times to find subreddits I hadn't heard of, and found the communities they were bitching about to be universally less insufferable than the people at justunsubbed.
ok tbf it sounds like a subreddit that's just there for people to whine in
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.
So often, "politics" just means "stuff I don't like." People don't think of "stuff I do like" as politics. And that's not a right-wing phenomenon. It's common across the political spectrum.
(This isn't me spouting "both sides" nonsense. The poster in that screenshot is a bigoted dumbass and a horrible human being. I'd have a lot more respect for someone quitting a Pokemon community that was rife with anti-LGBT bigotry even if the reason they gave was "it was too political". It's still frustrating to see the term "politics" (mis?)used in that way by people I otherwise respect, though.)
Everything's politics. "That's too political" is a copout non-statement. Have the guts to say what you mean.
And 269 upvotes WTF?
Please Trans Right ≠ Politics
Politics drives lawmaking. Ignore it if you want, but when laws are passed that make your life or society worse, what story will you tell yourself?
We all understand the frustration of politics. But it's still relevant.
If it makes you feel any better, /r/JustUnsubbed is just a right wing echo chamber. Most of the time people are “unsubbing” from subs that are simply friendly towards minorities.
Trans rights absolutely is political, especially when an incoming president decides that they should be barred from existing. It shouldn't be, but such is the way of the world nowadays.
I meant it's same as basic human right not some sort of stupid political agenda
that's a bit of a loaded response. Do you not consider fighting for your rights a political subject? note how i didn't comment on said rights.
We all know that if the post was about the polar opposite the "politics" would have not bothered them.
Wait, so all of you unironically believe that a real human being posted this to Reddit just to show off, and then another real human being reposted it to a hate sub, and you all believe that these are independently acting humans are just being humans, on the human populated website Reddit?