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*Pony wearing fake horn*

Bubbles: “That’s not a unicorn, that’s a plain old pony”

Buttercup: *knocks his horn off*

“It’s not a unicorn it’s just… Sad"

I can’t believe this is in the fucking script

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“No way, ponies have shorter legs.

It’s a colt.”

“What’s a colt?”

“A baby horse.”

“Then what’s a filly?”

“Uh a horse with attitude?”

they fucking just brought up gender

blatantly

and tried to cleverly cover it up

But essentially they just had Blossom say “That’s a dude!”

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So this is basically the same thing as ripping off a transperson’s pants and telling them they aren’t that gender

how do they show the reaction

okay not bad, I mean it’s still awful that they’re showing something like this when being outed is a triggering traumatic experience-

aaaaand they made him get over the top angry and ridiculous over this

“WELL EXCUSE ME, I MAY NOT HAVE A HORN

BUT I DO HAVE A HEART

AND IN THAT HEART I KNOW I’M A BEAUTIFUL UNICORN”

okay so great way to depict the concept of being trans. y’know. By making it look like an over the top joke and like he’s just crazy and angry and being whiny and dramatic.

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“Woah, drama bomb.”

HOLY

FUCKING SHIT

DID SHE REALLY JUST SAY THAT?!?!

By the way did I forget to mention they’re basically saying being trans is like claiming you’re a mythological creature?

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“WE’ll get the professor to turn you in to a unicorn, and then I can be friends with a REAL LIVE UNICORN!”

okay so

she’s only supportive of his identity because it’d be cool to be besties with a unicorn

imagine if I had a friend who was like “OH it’d be cool if I had a guy friend, get an operation so I can have a guy friend!”

y’know

basically denying I’m a guy unless I have a penis

Or in this case, fucking horn.

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ew she’s even fantasizing about it and imposing her ideal of what a unicorn should be on him

so now we need a scene transfer

let’s see, what’s a perfectly appropriate scene to cut away to in an episode that was specified as a trans issues metaphor?

a pickle museum

that’s right folks

we’re talking about a transunicorn getting a horn transplant, and the best way to do a scene transfer is a joke about a museum containing pickles

y’know

cuz phallic jokes

classy.

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“Professor! He needs this!”

“I NEED THIS”

…… so yeah his feelings on this matter don’t actually matter to bubbles apparently, she just wants him to be a unicorn for her sake.

Because that’s how being trans works

right?

people are actually imposing what THEY want you to be, you’re not actually trans, you’re just trying to be something someone else wants you to be C:

(except I’m pretty sure the actual trans issue would be if everyone kept insisting he was a pony over and over and over)

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So the professor got done explaining that this procedure isn’t fully tested yet and is risky.

“Well it’s up to you Donny, is this something you want to try?”

“As long as my BFF Bubbles says it’s a good idea, I am DOWN!”

now he’s only doing this because Bubbles wants him to

not because he actually really badly/passionately wants to be a unicorn???

Also, trans operations are risky and still under research, so this is actually a super serious decision.

Professor: This is your body and it’s a serious choice!

Thoroughly weigh your options as you read through this document in all its entirety.”

Okay there is no excuse now. This is 100% a trans issue episode, when they use terminology like “it’s your body and it’s a serious choice”

And this is how they treat it.

“EH, I SKIMMED IT!”

Note how it says “FOREVER” in big red letters?

Indicating to our lovely children that this is a permanent change, and such a serious, risky procedure :C

So now we see what direction this episode is really going

They’re basically giving the moral that “changing your body is risky and bad and comes with lots of bad side effects”

Don’t believe me?

let’s continue down the transphobic trainwreck!

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So yeah guess what

it didn’t work

this is how they’re depicting transitioning by the way

by making it look FUCKING HORRIFYING

So yeah, transkids? Good luck feeling confident in your important decision about your body. I’m sure this will make you feel confident that it’s the right thing to do if it makes you happy. C:

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So now that he’s gotten his operation with bad side effects, he’s reduced to being a freakshow

and his conditions get worse

he’s fucking crying, he’s horrified

he turns in to an even bigger monster because the side effects are THAT bad

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oh wow so

they cut back to the pickle museum

and shatter a pickle statue

okay let me explain why this is so fucked up

The mayor is explaining if this pickle statue breaks, bad luck will occur. And it gets shattered.

Now in context of this episode, why this was either on purpose or just a really shitty choice: we once again have someone saying ‘if you break thing (that happens to be a phallic object joke btw) then bad stuff will happen’

it’s the same thing they’re saying this episode

if you try to change your body

bad things will happen

he smashed his pickle, so despair will follow (see where I’m going with this? you don’t make jokes about smashing pickles in a trans issues episode, it’s in really poor taste)

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Bubbles comes in and tells him he has to calm down

“LOOK AT ME, I’M A FREAK, WE ARE NO LONGER BFFS!”

yes because being bffs is way more important than his feelings, Bubbles (you selfish little shit)

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holy shit they wont stop with the fucking pickle thing

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Buttercup and Blossom join

Buttercup: Woah, he’s a freak.

Bubbles: He is not a freak, he is my friend!

REALLY?! THAT’S WHY HE’S NOT A FREAK?! BECAUSE HE’S YOUR FRIEND? WHO BY THE WAY YOU ONLY WANTED TO BE FRIENDS WITH IF HE WAS A UNICORN?!?!!

“Donny this is all my fault, I put you in danger just because I wanted to be friends with a unicorn”

oh good at least she admits it but that doesn’t exactly fix the problem now does it? Nor does it remotely tackle transissues,

what the hell is it trying to say here

“friends of transpeople shouldn’t pressure them to change themselves”??????

i’m pretty sure that’s not the major issue transpeople are dealing with

I’ll expand on this once I’m through all this garbage and have a final say in how this episode could have been handled because this is such shit writing and such a shitty message for confused trans kids.

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“DEEP DOWN IN YOUR HEART OF HEARTS, YOU ARE A REAL LIVE UNICORN!”

“NO, IN MY HEART I KNOW I’M A MONSTER!”

Uh, guys

I know you’re trying to make this a good message and all

but you’re really REALLY not

“i just wanted to be friends with a unicorn”

so what does she do

continue to insist he’s a unicorn

and this upsets him

yeah you had that coming, Bubbles

ugh this is something I’ll expand on as a final say, this is just too messed up

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SO IN AN AMAZING TWIST, UNICORNS APPEAR!

“Wait which ones are stallions?”

… WOW.

just

wow

throw in a joke about gender binaries in a trans issues episode

s’great

that’s just

real great

“I blamed you but I didn’t think of the consequences either. I sooo wanted to be a unicorn too…”

“But you ARE a unicorn!”

so being trans is just ‘wanting it’ I guess, and wanting to change comes with HORRIBLE consequences.

Oh by the way

turns out

he actually IS a unicorn

“I had to wait until you went on an intense journey of adolescent discovery.”

so there’s no trans issues here at all I guess

because he was a unicorn the whoooole time

no really

he was actually a unicorn the whole time, no magical transformation in to a unicorn or anything

he just had a horn under his hair and he never looked

I’m not making that up, that’s what happens.

Look they even fix the pickle museum

And then they have a happy ending and fly away AND GOD WHAT TRASH

I’ll reblog one more post with a final say because this episode was a mess and there was actually one VERY simple solution to it

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Episode Review

Where the fuck do I even begin?

So the overall lesson in this episode really didn’t come off as accepting or tolerant of trans issues in the slightest.

They outed their ‘trans’ character at the start, didn’t address how wrong that was

the overall lesson here is not to change your body because bad things will happen and you’ll be a monster

I want to say this right now:

I am trans. And it’s people telling me that I’m NOT a boy, that I SHOULDN’T want t change that makes me feel like a monster.

It makes me feel like a freak.

CN decided to make a trans character a villain for trying to change ‘who they are’.

I’m going to keep this short and simple because the fix to this abomination IS simple:

This episode would have been PERFECT if he became a monster because everyone kept insisting he was a pony over and over and over and over

his anger could grow from no one letting him be what he feels

and in the end, bubbles insisting to him that he IS a unicorn, and that she was wrong for not treating him like one from the start

and everyone accepting him as a unicorn

Imagine this ending:

Everyone believing in him and accepting him as a unicorn is what turns him in to a unicorn

But most of all, the most important thing, is that he has to believe in himself.

He might not have been a unicorn in body but he was a unicorn at heart and that’s what mattered most, and as long as he was true to his heart and everyone else could accept him for what he feels on the inside.

Bam, unicorn. The problem is solved, he no longer feels like he has to be a monster or a freak, he doesn’t feel trapped in his own body and misunderstood and mislabelled.

You see.

How fucking HARD was that to fix?!

Instead, we got this. This thing that tells us trans people are whiny, dramatic, angry, and that it’s risky/dangerous to try and change your body. That they should just accept their own bodies and it’ll all be okay.

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Proof that this is a trans issues episode since people keep saying I’m overanalyzing:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/herocomplex/la-et-hc-powerpuff-girls-20160401-story.html

“In addition to shattering old tropes and kick-punching dated ideas, the new “Powerpuff Girls” will also address issues of gender and identity. One upcoming episode in particular touches on ideas of gender identity – a topic open to conversation even in animated shows, thanks to programs such as “Steven Universe,” which explores gender fluidity and rejects established gender norms.

“We did an episode where there’s a unicorn. Basically when it starts out, he’s a pony, but he wants to be a unicorn,” Jennings explained. “He has to go through a transformation to become a unicorn and so it’s a whole [episode that asks], ‘What are you on the inside? What are you on the outside? How do you identify yourself? How do people see you?’ There’s a lot of subtext in that.”