One Piece 1159 Spoilers: Figerland is an Inhuman Bastard and just showed us what happens to women in a dystopian society where wealth and power are unevenly divided and the law bends for the rulers but not the masses!
Like, the Fuck, Odachii?
You won’t even let us see the face of the woman who gave birth to Shanks?
But given the current political climate, I think this is apt! To people like Garling, women and, by extension, children are nothing but property.
If he treated the mother of his children like this, no wonder he would’ve tried to win Shakky in a competition like she was a brood mare.
Look here, ladies, and even the men of this world.
One Piece is your periodic reminder that in a dystopian world you as an individual are seen as nothing but “bodies” to be used for the pleasure of powerful men, bodies to be exploited for labour, and then for people with wombs to become “host bodies” for incubating babies. Even if you think you are protected because you gave birth to your overlord’s children, you are still a slave, a replaceable biological device, just like what Garling did to Shanks’ mom! He never saw her as his life mate or loving mother of their children but as a sex slave who gave birth to “his children”, like the womb she is! She was simply a medium to an end!
Every woman, man, and child who is not born to the top 1% is a potential slave to the power-hungry men’s greed.
We already saw what happened to Fisher Tiger, Ginny, the Boa Sisters, Caimie, Jinbei, and Jean Bart: it doesn’t matter how strong or influential you are; you are an object to be bought, raped, used and killed after you have satisfied their boredom. And it never ends; there is always a new target. There is always a new shiny human they want to rape. Hence, they came for Shakky because she was a free woman, living life on her terms and choosing to love on her terms. The very idea of a woman choosing to live and love on her own terms makes the celestial dragons want to enslave her. Because how dare you? How dare you rise above your station as men’s property?
I think we cannot distil it any more than this; exerting one’s will over another is about control. Power is power.
And given how right-wing media has fuelled red-pill content, this arc came at the right time!
Shanks kill Garling, okay? You must avenge your faceless mother’s death.
