Dear Disney,

Them: MAKE SURE YOU CONSUME THIS. ITS CANON!

Man... I finally got around to watching the trailer last night and just started shouting “NOPE” over and over again as the trailer went on. I’m sure it will be great but that trailer stressed me out so much and I do not know if I will be able to watch this.

Let’s not pretend there wasn’t any sexism in regards to this movie right from the get go. Sony simply took advantage and capitalized on that. LFL did the same thing over TLJ (that had a lot to do with damage control to save Kathleen Kennedy’s job), but neither of those studios could have spun it, if the sexism hadn’t…

Sadly, there were a lot of people who were positively *gleeful* about hating the 2016 movie before it even came out, which is a real shame. People were hating on it from the very first leaks of the premise and conception, and I think it’s actually one of those things that was a big catalyst for the misogynistic…

The problem is that he is one of the strongest in a very female tropey way. He is a pacifist, but when pushed to act he implied to be quite strong. Making his brother female would have been a safer change.

Inclusiveness seems like a really cheap excuse when you picked an already androgynous looking character to do it. If you’re gonna try that, make Taurus a woman. Go big or go home.

We’re sort of dancing around it, but maybe we should say it.

If they wanted to do that, they should have made the main character female. Changing the male character who wore PINK armor into female is a bit too on the nose and while i dont know the series, I feel lessons the characters impact as they made a character “girly” because of design instead of doing it for the…

Ugh...

Exactly! This isn’t about inclusion though its in its name, its about ease and getting plaudits for being inclusive. Seriously had they gender swaped Seiya himself that would have been something interesting, but no its Shun... It shows a fundamental misunderstanding of the property. That is why people are angry.…

2018 and we’re still using the “pink has to be feminine” trope.

It’s not really the same issue here.

Such a wrong character to gender swap. This comes off like when they edited old anime like Sailor Moon to make characters cousins to make them “less offensive”. “Hey, lets take the feminine male character that breaks stereotypes of its time and make the character a female.”

Oh I raged about this last weekend so I’m not going to rage here.

Watch them blow everyone's minds and have Andromeda be revealed as trans.

“Again, I get that Shun was seen as a great male role model, but, well, we *do* already have a lot of great male role models bobbing about in media, so I find it hard to see this as a huge loss.”

Thing is, turning one of the few non-macho male characters that’s not framed as evil into what’s esentially a token woman is the MOST backwards way to go about it.

The major issue is in many ways in the name of inclusion they change the one character who was already inclusive. So instead of having a sensitive and multifaceted male character who breaks expectations (that still exists in this genre) we’re now going to have a pointless controversy with none of what made that…

The funny thing is that when I was a kid I always thought Shun was gay. I frankly didn’t mind, I thought he was incredibly cool, and in my mind it made Saint Seiya incredibly progressist for its time. So in 2018, making him a woman, actually feels like a major step backward...