By this point, I think it’s safe to say that Miraculous Ladybug is not about ‘girl power’. Not in the way that’s traditionally meant. Rather than empowering girls, it’s about disempowering them – presenting the idea of girls having any kind of power as problematic.
The series twists itself into knots blaming Marinette for everything that goes wrong, following the most inane lines of ‘logic’ imaginable. It is far more invested in convincing its audience that she IS to blame for things far out of her control, that she is responsible for everything bad that happens. Her, and perhaps a few other characters as well… namely Chloe, Alya, Lila…
Oh, Adrien? Why, Adrien hasn’t done anything wrong. How could you even suggest such a thing? No, no, Adrien is perfect just the way he is, hasn’t made a single misstep anywhere. There is no war in Ba Sing Se.
And what makes this all so much more disturbing is how it’s working. How much of the fanbase mindlessly parrots the party line, cheering on her suffering and insisting that she ’deserves it’, that her misery is well warranted. This is not and has never been a show about uplifting and supporting young girls; it is about tearing them down and punishing them for not catering to spoiled brats like Adrien. Teaching them that this is the way things are meant to be.
What is this going to teach impressionable young girls? If you have a crush on a popular guy that other girls like, they’re are immediately your enemies. It’s natural for girls to be pinned against eachother for the stupidest reasons. Teaching girls to turn against each other and mistreat each other like the common stereotype. That their only good people if they bend over backwards for the person they like even though their crush doesn’t do the same.
It’s disgusting.
Well anon, you've essentially summed up the reason why I quit watching this show.
