>>36959893I don't think the taboo surrounding the controversy has helped her in the art department.
It's difficult for me to comment on, because Im white and was a child when I first saw Jynx, so she was just a Pokemon to me. This part of the think piece has always irked me though.
>Every few years, the Japanese sense of superiority seems to resurface.>For example, the Japanese fought to keep U.S. military bases in Okinawa from relocating to the mainland.Part of her argument as to why Jynx must have been designed to be offensive is that they think themselves better than the rest of the world.
Yet her example is that America
who are the reigning champions of "better than you" were denied permission to move their military bases to Japans tiny mainland - where they dropped two fucking atomic bombs.
I agree there's a case for Jynx's original design being racially offensive but I really wish this stick in the mud wasn't the first one to approach the subject. She clearly has her own prejudices to work through.
