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To be honest, these kinds of posts are really annoying. I support trans rights and all of that, but the original post feels like it's just virtue signaling for upvotes. All of the " says trans rights" posts are the same. If some find it affirming then that's great but it makes no sense to share in general communities where it doesn't contribute anything.
I can't tell if you didn't look at the tail or if you're just not as much of a Pokemon nerd as I am.
Oooh, took me a while to get tbh. I assumed this Pikachu was always a girl, but they gave her tail surgery. I think it would've been more obvious if I wasn't distracted by the giant fist.
Politics is when people have rights.
Yes, it is
Wait, so all of you unironically believe that a real human being posted this to Reddit just to show off, and then another real human being reposted it to a hate sub, and you all believe that these are independently acting humans are just being humans, on the human populated website Reddit?
There is one trangender NPC in the main series of Pokémon games:
She's pretty explicitly trans in the Japanese version and heavily implied to be trans in the English version.
Sadly, the implication is removed in the Korean and German versions.
The post isn't even just a trans flag, it actually has meaning. The tail has a little 'heart shaped thing' taped on it so that means the Pikachu in the photo is transfemme because female Pikachus have heart shaped tails
THATS SO CUTE AAAA 😭😭
Oh wow, neat. Appreciate your comment I had no idea.
That is very funny, great detail
There's a Pokemon episode where Pikachu tapes its tail into the heart shape to feign being a female Pikachu(was one of the handful of episodes where Ash cd'ed for something). Really just isn't political, trans pride colors and all.
I am saying this as someone who regularly looks at topics that are either very political or very heated or both and decides that I simply do not have the energy for discourse. Also how much of an asshole do you have to be to throw a fit over what would have likely been a very positive and wholesome thread prior to people trying to tear it down?
And 269 upvotes WTF?
Please Trans Right ≠ Politics
Politics drives lawmaking. Ignore it if you want, but when laws are passed that make your life or society worse, what story will you tell yourself?
We all understand the frustration of politics. But it's still relevant.
Trans rights absolutely is political, especially when an incoming president decides that they should be barred from existing. It shouldn't be, but such is the way of the world nowadays.
I meant it's same as basic human right not some sort of stupid political agenda
If it makes you feel any better, /r/JustUnsubbed is just a right wing echo chamber. Most of the time people are “unsubbing” from subs that are simply friendly towards minorities.
that's a bit of a loaded response. Do you not consider fighting for your rights a political subject? note how i didn't comment on said rights.
Ahh, the three genders: male, female and political.
unless you're a gamer™ —then there would be two genders, male and political
Well, otherwise it would ruin your immersion