also the whole setup of like "one boy and one girl pilot" is super weird and the sex metaphor is bazaar. like i think the idea of an intimate connection between people controlling something is interesting! but the way its handled is just fucking weird and just serves to

perpetuate the same gross male gaze shit. like the men are in control of the ships? wtf? and the women are like moaning and stuff but the guys never experience the same trouble connecting. like its so fucking weird

zero two could be an incredible character if given the right environment but its just weird now :/

the very foundation of the show is based on hierarchy and an awful gender ideology, and the writing/directing just reinforces rather than challenges it. infects everything :/

not to mention adult supremacy, human supremacy, and competitive toxic masculinity

like discrimination against zero two as an alien is framed as this thing that has to be overcome and that 016 is so progressive for not caring but like... its literally just a human with tiny horns. like this message is not challenging anything