"That's a DUDE? EW! I Need to Bathe!"
So, over on That Guy With the Glasses MarzGurl has been reviewing the Land Before Time franchise.

Movie number 8 has a new spike tail named Tippy who looks like this.

MarzGurl is disturbed.

It starts at the 4:20-ish mark of the video. For those who don't want to click, here's a transcription.

Adult Spike Tail: Come on boys.
MarsGurl: Wait, wait, BOYS?!...That pink thing...It's a DUDE?! Ew, what the hell?! It even has this big girly eyelash thing going on that the girl LittleFoot look-alike had from a few movies back. Ugh. UGH! I think I need to bathe after this.

Luckily the comments are full of clue-bats for the most part and call her out on the offensive reaction.

My personal favourite comment is "Really MG, you watch anime; you should be very very accustomed to "dude looks like a lady" by now."

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	spawn_of_kong 2011-03-31 12:20 pm UTC (link)
	She badmouthed Elisa?! I knew there was something about her (the Nostalgia Chick, I mean) I didn't like, ~~beyond the fact that I liked Anastasia, thank you very much~~. (Reply to this)(Parent)(Thread)

the__ivorytower
2011-03-31 05:13 pm UTC (link)

She was doing an episode about token female characters in cartoons, and she talked about Gargoyles and said not only was Elisa a token female character, she was also a token minority (I don't remember the specific wording, if it was person of colour or what).

It bothered the hell out of my because not only was she totally cool, Elisa DID STUFF. She had a job that probably wouldn't have been filled by her demographic a lot and did it WELL. Her friendship/romance with Goliath wasn't the fill of her world, but it was a part of it, just like kicking ass.

...also, Elisa's heritage comes with a cool story if you do a touch of research (which basically no one on that site ever does, because it would ruin their jokes that play on base ignorance, but anyway): Elisa was originally planned to be Hispanic, but when they got her voice actress (who was half-Nigerian and half-Native American), they changed her heritage to match, and later on talked about it (I believe they address it when they talk about Elisa's family and the episodes with Talon).

Hell, Demona and Fox were also super cool. If she'd wanted to complain about Angela, I'd have been down for that, since *she* felt like a Mary Sue character I'd have inserted into the series when I was 12-13. I don't even recall if she talked about Demona and Fox.

I liked Anastasia too.

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alana
2011-04-01 12:03 am UTC (link)

Yeah, in the world-traveling arc you get to see both the reservation (I think? Native American community, at least, it's been a while) where Elisa's dad grew up, where Coyote is causing trouble, and Africa (I don't remember if it was specified as Nigeria, blub bluh most forgetful me) where her mom is doing some fokelore readings, which are of course related to the episode having Anansi causing trouble.

(... I'd be kind of interested to hear what minorities from the various cultures who had mythology borrowed think about *every god ever pretty much* being the child of Oberon. Hmm. I do not know if it was respectful enough to not cause offense, in context, to have ALL THE GODS ALL OF THEM canonly originate from British origins?)

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	snarkhunter 2011-04-01 07:35 pm UTC (link)
	Elisa is NOT a token ANYTHING. UGH. Fox was awesome beyond awesome. I loved that show. Best cartoon ever until ATLA came along. For me, anyway. (Reply to this)(Parent)

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