Political Memes

"I deserve to exist"

"wow, why did you have to make things political"

A statement dreamt up by the utterly deranged.

At first, I thought the original original post was just arbitrarily using the Pokémon franchise to platform for transgender people, but the OP has modified a pre-fab model of a male Pikachu to turn it into a female Pikachu by adding the two bumps at the end of the tail. The gender dimorphism between Pikachu is fairly obscure knowledge so I can see why somebody might miss the point of that post.

Honestly, the fact that sexuality and gender are a political issue at all seems really silly when you break it down. Just let people fuck who they wanna fuck (with consenting adults, of course) and do what they want with their own body. If body mods like piercings and tattoos were this heavily regulated pretty much everyone would think it's the dumbest shit ever. You can get a tattoo and a piercing on your dick but if you wanna remove your dick entirely it's for some reason wrong? A woman can get breast implants but if anyone else does that's also wrong for some reason?

Edit: Wording.

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 😭😭

Ahh, the three genders: male, female and political.

Pokemon is a non-political IP where checks notes the evil group usually torture pokemon, and oftentimes want to change the world to better reflect their ideal world.

Pokemon became political when checks notes again you treat people like people when they change THEIR body and don't expect anything more from you than before

As yes, makes sense. What is next? A Pokemon that can transform in other pokemon? A Pokemon that dresses up like a different kind pokemon? I bet the woke pokemon company will release a black Charizard that is more special as the original Charizard./s

Fuck morons. In a world, where everything is political, they manage to point at a 9yo girl wearing pants in a movie and claim that it is political.

Edit: THEY ARE LEAVING THEIR HOBBIES AND PASSIONS OVER THIS! THEY ARE LEAVING THEIR COMMUNITIES OVER THIS! that is mental.

So often, "politics" just means "stuff I don't like." People don't think of "stuff I do like" as politics. And that's not a right-wing phenomenon. It's common across the political spectrum.

(This isn't me spouting "both sides" nonsense. The poster in that screenshot is a bigoted dumbass and a horrible human being. I'd have a lot more respect for someone quitting a Pokemon community that was rife with anti-LGBT bigotry even if the reason they gave was "it was too political". It's still frustrating to see the term "politics" (mis?)used in that way by people I otherwise respect, though.)

Everything's politics. "That's too political" is a copout non-statement. Have the guts to say what you mean.

Meanwhile...

one out of three female Azurill evolves into a male Marill

https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Azurill_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

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.

The most concerning part is that the JustUnsubbed post has a positive number of votes. Reddit really has become more deranged than ever

Politics is when people have rights.

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.

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?

We all know that if the post was about the polar opposite the "politics" would have not bothered them.

And 269 upvotes WTF?

Please Trans Right ≠ Politics