It’s the same shit with men calling Carol Danvers “Carl Manvers.” If a female character doesn’t fit the incredibly narrow ideals of what THEY think women should be, then they hate her. And they obsessively insist that she’s not a real woman.
I’ve seen plenty of women with this body-type, AND this type of face. Plenty. But I guess they aren’t good jack-off material…. so they shouldn’t be allowed to exist. These men will claim she’s not “woman enough" and is just ~“being made into a man”~
Oh, and the MCU version also isn’t showing T&A, or bold lipstick/mascara, and is wearing the same practical outfitting as the male characters…. so of course she’s already an “ESS JAY DOUBLE-YOO” character, or whatever.
So I decided to compare my body to She-Ra’s, because a frequent thing I’m hearing is that she’s “flat-chested”.
I’m a 24 year old woman, seen here with super stylish, totally-adult penguin pants. I make She-Ra look like the bustiest woman alive. I honestly see more sense in the claim that her hips aren’t as wide as most women’s are, and she has broader shoulders.
And, well, shit. I guess women who have narrow hips, or a small ass, or broad shoulders, aren’t “real women.” Just like how I’m not a “real woman” for having a flat chest. I mean, I guess She-Ra’s other big crime here is not wearing lipstick?… and god forbid, having thick eyebrows? (Which a lot of real girls do).
God forbid any of these girls/women get ANY representation at all.
“If we can’t jack off to you, then you shouldn’t exist.”
In the end though, it all comes down to demographic. There was a He-Man reboot a while ago, that fans of the original series loved…. but it didn’t do well, because the actual children of 2002– the demographic it needed to appeal to– didn’t like it as much.
Jee, it’s almost as if you gotta appeal to the current generation, not the nostalgic piss-babies.
Even a creator of the original She-Ra is defending her reboot, rejecting the idea of an “ideal female body,” and mentioning that the toxic nostalgic fanbase are seeing things through a pre-pubescent lens, having imprinted on the original She-Ra “like baby ducks.”