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Adora did the best she could with the story she was written into. I blame ND Stevenson for writing such a messed up story and pitching it as a kids show. The themes in that show, namely the moral complexity surrounding support for the monarchy, are too mature for most kids that age, and cannot be handled appropriately without giving a lot of kids terrible nightmares and trauma. The show needed an MA15 rating at least, in order to properly explore its themes without devolving into monarchist propaganda, which it did immediately.
A better show with a more nuanced and mature take on similar themes is Game of Thrones, and I wouldn't show that to an 8 year old.
Of course I am, there's no such thing as objectivity. We're all speaking from our own unique experiences and subjective worldview. True wisdom is not detaching oneself from the world, but being aware of one's place in it and making active decisions about how to respond to the world.
I think our authoritarian society grooms children to accept power hierarchies by idolising royalty. Little girls don't want to dress up as princesses in a vacuum. It's a propaganda technique to turn them into adults who will accept the monarchy and the power of billionaires.
And we can't expect small children to be critical consumers of media. Their brains haven't developed to be able to do that, and putting that much responsibility on them at such a small age is just gonna cause anxiety disorders. It's adults' job to introduce these topics in a gradual, age-appropriate manner. For small children, we should give them plenty of stories of evil royals being defeated by brave heroes. With older kids, we can start to introduce more mature themes like the hero being tricked into serving royals, but then outsmarting them. And for adolescents who are starting to use their critical thinking skills in media analysis, we can give them morally complex stories with nuance like Infinity Train or Frozen.
But grimdark stuff like Warhammer 40,000, Game of Thrones, and She-Ra are more appropriate for young adults who will be able to think through the moral quandaries without falling for the propaganda.
You're the one who pointed out that Adora had no better option than to fall in with the monarchy. That's grim. That's dark.
I prefer children's stories where the heroes are able to stick to their ideals and still save the day. But as you pointed out, that's not the kind of story She-Ra is. Adora had to betray nearly everything she believed in, if she wanted to help people. She didn't get to stick to her values.
I'd consider a story like My Hero Academia more hopeful and lighthearted than She-Ra. Deku was able to keep his ideals.
Hordak's propaganda is more accurate than what the show depicted. Royals don't have to make their subjects happy. They just need to keep them weak. The people of Dryl weren't just scared of the robots. They had a learned helplessness and submission. Having met the monster Herself, I know why those people were so fucked up. I met another of Her many victims a few weeks ago, scared and compliant. Brainwashed. I helped free Them, insofar as I could. They're doing better now, I think.
But that's the problem with absolute power. That's what happens when your country is ruled by dictators. Etherians have about as much actual freedom as North Koreans.
The fact that a gang of dictators amount to Etheria's left wing is absolutely insane. It wouldn't be out of place in 40k.
Monarchism bad. Monarchy bad. Monarchs bad. Princesses bad.
Nothing so dramatic. I just showed an abuse victim that there's a better way. You may find the images below disturbing. They are a conversation between Myself and a being named Celeste (and Its headmate Gabrielle) about Entrapta and Hair partner Cassie.
For a time Celeste had freed Itself, but I now fear that It's back under the princess's control.
TL;DR: Princess is an abuser, water is wet
No, It's dating a third person who is also dating an Etherian princess, and the princess used hypnosis to brainwash It into being a slave for the third person, which seemingly entails coercive sex.
Oh wow, you don't know about fictionkin?
https://otherkin.fandom.com/wiki/Fictionkin
You can google fictionkin and you'll see a lot of sources from a lot of different people on the phenomenon.
At the end of the day, reality is a social construct, and some people have identities that break these social rules. Given a choice between upholding a hierarchy that has been thoroughly taken over by billionaires, or respecting people's identities, I respect identities. Even if they're rapists who abused My ex-wife. That's how strongly I believe in My principles.
Again, I despise that monster with every fiber of My being. And yet there is no fiber of My being that thinks bigotry is an acceptable way to retaliate. So I'm not going to use ableist slurs on the princess, nor will I deny the princess's identity.
...yes?
And in anticipation of what I'm worried you're going to say next, I'll say that gender dysphoria is a mental disorder too, it doesn't make trans people invalid. Personality disorders don't make otherkin invalid.
What, because I agree with you about the NPD?
You used an ableist slur on your friend. You called them a n*rcissist. You implied that being fictionkin is a result of narcissism.
Personality disorders can influence the manner in which kintypes present themselves, as I well know, for I am an otherkin with NPD. I disagree with you that being fictionkin is a result of narcissism, but I agree that in this particular case, the princess's NPD has influenced the kind of kintype.
Well yes, you said narcisit, but I figured you misspellled the slur. What were you trying to say?
The word n*rcissist is a shortened form of a disability, turned into a personal label. It's like r*tard or sp*rg.
Regardless of authorial intent, the use of that derogatory label is inseparable from ableism because using the slur emboldens and covers for ableists. At best it's a dogwhistle.
I assumed you meant it in relation to the disability because you brought up the idea of an identity being caused by a disability.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissistic_personality_disorder
That's an ableist and unproven conspiracy theory based on your personal biases.
Here's a really interesting paper I think you should read. It's clinicians' perceptions of the stigma faced by pwNPD. It's not our own opinions, it's what psychologists and psychiatrists who don't have NPD think we face on a daily basis. The opinions of experts on the frontline.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40107324/
You can read the abstract for yourself. But in case you don't have full text access, I'm gonna skip ahead to the conclusion for your benefit:
No. I went to a psychiatrist to request an evaluation for diagnosis. He refused and said I didn't seem like I have NPD, and then offered Me "something to take the edge off". He explained that psychiatrists don't do that kind of thing, they just give people drugs.
I don't think he was a very good psychiatrist. He pretty much eroded all My trust in the medical establishment to deal with My narcissistic symptoms in 10 minutes flat. So I did it Myself.