I found this post in the Spop critical tags and I'd like to give my two cents about it. As always DO NOT HARASS THE OP! And if they happen to find this post, they can consider this my reply (warning long post/tw teen sexualization)
What happened is that fans of the og She-ra didn't like the new character designs (can't totally blame them) and made rude comments about She-ra's look. How does that disprove the point made by criticals about the sexualization of teenagers from the Spop crew and Spop fandom?
The fans of the og She-ra didn't ask to make the characters teens and since they find the designs ugly, I don't think they're the ones who constantly sexualize them. The Spop fandom is to blame for this, and some of them are the same people who hate the og designs because they're considered too sexy. Completely ignoring that at least those characters are adults and it wasn't just the girls who had unpractical clothes. He-man, Hordak and Skeletor didn't wear pants, but I've yet to see anyone saying that's offensive.
(Side note but I hate when someone says og She-ra had massive boobs. Enough with the slut shaming already!)
We're just going to forget that Scorpia's uniform had a boob window and Perfuma was showing off her collarbone even back in season 1? Okay.
Look, the problem is not the outfits being revealing or not, it's the creepy way some fans talk about them, how they make hundreds of posts about Catra's boob window, her body and call her a milf. Not even in the first seasons, while the main cast was underage, they were safe from being sexualized.
No one in the critical community is mad at Spop for having teenagers questioning their sexualities. We're more worried about people calling homoerotic scenes where one character is being abused by another.
Romatize/Sexualize abuse =/= shipping fictional teenagers
I kinda agree with this part, but not completely. Sure, the story works well with a cast of teenagers, but I think it could have worked even if they were a bit older. It's not like people automatically get over their trauma when they turn 18. Catra, Adora and Glimmer would still have faced a war and dealt with a terrible childhood if they were in their early twenties.
I don't have a problem with Nate making the characters younger in the reboot. Maybe he did so because he thought young viewers would relate better to them or he wanted to explore trauma in teenage years, it doesn't matter. What matters is that we all agree it's not okay to treat a show for kids like an hentai.