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The She-Ra Reboot Looks So Badass—But Not Everyone Thinks So
This is why we can't have nice things.
By Raffy ErmacJuly 16 2018 / 7:38 PM
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Raffy is a Los Angeles-based writer, editor, video creator, critic, and digital director of Out Magazine. The former editor-in-chief of PRIDE, he is also a die-hard Rihanna and Sailor Moon stan who loves to write about all things pop culture, entertainment, and identities. Follow him on Instagram (@raffyermac) and Twitter (@byraffy), and subscribe to his YouTube channel. 
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Ever since it was announced earlier this year, fans have been super excited for the Netflix reboot of Filmation's classic '80s superhero cartoon She-Ra: Princess of Power.
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When Entertainment Weekly dropped exclusive, first-look stills from the production (led by artist Noelle Stevenson), people—rightfully—got even more excited about it. 
\u201cshe-ra is looking so cute and promising wrow\u201d
 — nicole \ud83d\udd25 (@nicole \ud83d\udd25)
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Unfortunately, because we can't have nice things, creepy critics who wanted She-Ra to be "sexy" also took to the internet to voice their disdain for her new, 2018 look. (Keep in mind this is a children's show). 
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\u201cL: She-Ra, 1980s\nR: She-Ra, 2010s\n\nThey really won\u2019t rest until the entire history of human civilization has been plundered and stripped of all beauty and wonder \ud83d\ude24\u201d
 — AKIRA THE DON (@AKIRA THE DON)
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\u201c@gullshriek It's too bad she looks so masculine. Women are great in their own way. Why does She-Ra have to embody male traits in order to be powerful?\u201d
 — Leif A. Thomas (@Leif A. Thomas)
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Luckily for us, fans can see right throught these silly complaints...
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 — Nonplayable (@Nonplayable)
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\u201cIn American news, adult men are complaining that She-Ra, a children\u2019s cartoon woman with a flying horse and a magic sword, isn\u2019t hot enough for them to jerk off to.\u201d
 — The Volatile Mermaid (@The Volatile Mermaid)
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\u201cAnyway this show looks amazing and I\u2019m so glad that kids will have both the classic 80\u2019s version AND the 2018 version to enjoy (and if you\u2019re a 40+ dude maybe just, watch one of the THOUSANDS of properties made just for you and leave this one alone)  \ud83c\udf08\u2728 https://t.co/zEyNPwxi25\u201d
 — Jen Bartel (@Jen Bartel)
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 — MasterSaruwatari#KlonoaIsBack (@MasterSaruwatari#KlonoaIsBack)
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\u201cWhen a fb group I was in did redesigns of female characters for fun, a lot of the pushback we got resembled this bullsh*t about She-Ra... New perspectives for new audiences are seen as a threat, though nothing is actually erasing what went before.\u201d
 — Sam Haney Press (@Sam Haney Press)
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\u201cI'm gonna give a tip to the creepy old dudes demanding She-ra be more sexualized in the reboot\n\nThe show isn't an example of the "Cal-arts style" no matter how much you've been working yourself up into a dizzy fury over it recently.\n\nPlease just like\n\nstop with that complaint ok\u201d
 — Steelhart Battlestag (@Steelhart Battlestag)
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Will we be tuning into the new, powerful She-Ra reboot when it drops on Netflix later this year? HELL YEAH! 

        
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