I really sympathize with Stanley. His life sounds like it was hard, and the show at least makes it look like neither of his major screw-ups was intentional. Stanford still had a point about the journals and the portal though, the needs of the many and all that.

I guess you make a good point, I never thought of it that way. I don't know. Anyway, it's a good show all-around. (Unlike One Piece, which is mind-bogglingly amazing in so many ways but also pretty damn sexist.)

I dunno, I mean I completely understand how it can be seen that way. It makes sense and everything. But like I said, it doesn't seem like the INTENT of the narrative from my point of view. Steven Universe seems like a show that tries to eliminate the need to categorize things as specifically directed at boys or girls,…

I mean it doesn't have to represent masculinity as a story theme or anything. She can just be a villain with a masculine archetype.

It generally is, but it doesn't have to specifically be used as such.

First of all, I agree with the others who say Jasper isn't supposed to be as much of a masculine archetype as a shounen villain archetype. But it's also worth noting that Steven Universe is largely a show meant to blur the lines between gendered media rather than strengthen them.