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5 Reasons Sailor Moon Was The OG Feminist

In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!

Zachary Kyle Winograd

Mar 05, 2019

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Since it's debut nearly 30 years ago, "Sailor Moon" remains a favorite amongst millennials and anime fans alike. With its female-centric cast, empowering messages, queer relationships and fierce female characters, it was one of the most revolutionary animes of its time. It taught girls that it was okay to be feminine and love pretty dresses while also being able to kick butt and save the universe from evil. "Sailor Moon" had us all fighting evil by moonlight and winning love by daylight.

Now, in the name of the moon, read this article or I will punish you!

1. Sailor Moon stressed the importance of female friendships

Sailor Moon knows how important female friendships are, that's why she has the sailor scouts always fighting by her side! She and her friends love and support one another, celebrating each other's victories and feeling each other's pain. Although they might argue sometimes, they know that girls need to help girls whenever they need it

2. Sailor Moon was able to be feminine while also kicking butt.

Sailor Moon loved to dress up in cute outfits and wear make-up (hence, the title: Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon) but that didn't mean she couldn't kick butt. She and her friends knew how to kick butts, take a name, and throw together a cute look. They didn't devalue femininity nor did they disregard the more masculine girls. They celebrated every type of woman in the show.

3. Sailor Moon Celebrated LGBT Women As Well

The Sailor Moon was famous for its LGBT representation (Sailor Uranus and Sailor Neptune/Kunzite and Zoisite, etc). Sailor Moon supported her LGBT friends and didn't think any less of them for being who they are.

4. Sailor Moon taught us that true beauty was inner, not outer.

Although the sailor scouts were traditionally pretty, they really focused on the girls' inner beauty. Sailor Moon reminded us that you can be pretty, but if you weren't a good person who cared about others then you truly weren't beautiful

5. Most of all, Sailor Moon taught us how to fight for ourselves

Ultimately, Sailor Moon taught us how to stick up for ourselves when we were being wronged. She taught us to be brave and take challenges head-on. Of course, she could be a bit of a crybaby and sometimes needed Tuxedo Mask to help her out, but that's the beauty of it: she's all of these things yet she's still brave. We can be crybabies and still be brave as well.

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5 Reasons Sailor Moon Was The OG Feminist

In the name of the moon, I'll punish you!

In This Article:

1. Sailor Moon stressed the importance of female friendships

2. Sailor Moon was able to be feminine while also kicking butt.

3. Sailor Moon Celebrated LGBT Women As Well

4. Sailor Moon taught us that true beauty was inner, not outer.

5. Most of all, Sailor Moon taught us how to fight for ourselves

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No one best represents the struggle like our favorite 90s squad.

1. When course schedules are released and you have a conflict between two required classes.

2. When there is only one section of a popular course.

3. Receiving the 18,000 emails reminding you to register ASAP.

4. When you need to see an advisor, but they are too busy/unresponsive.

5. Trying not to dress like a bum for your appointments with your advisors/department heads.

6. When you have a perfectly planned out schedule, and one class ruins it.

7. Carefully moving things around to accommodate a different class/section.

8. Waking up at 6:00 a.m. for your enrollment time.

9. Concocting a new schedule at your enrollment time after your original plan gets changed.

10. Getting into a class and filling the last available seat.

11. When all of your classes finally go through.

12. Realizing that you forgot a class that was a pre-requisite for everything else.

When your capability of "adulting" is put to the test

Nobody deserves to be living in poverty.

"Nobody living in one of the most influential nations in the world should be worried about making ends meet."

What is the current minimum wage at the federal level?

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What are the states that have set a $15/hour minimum wage?

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Because who understands your bitterness better than April?

1. When you have to provide an "interesting fact" for your first day ice-breaker.

2. When your professor is babbling on and on in his lecture.

3. When you edit your friend's paper and they get an A.

4. When it's 2 AM and you remember you have a test tomorrow.

5. When you finish taking the test and you're pretty sure you failed...

6. ...but then you get the test back and somehow passed.

7. When you've been up for 12 hours straight writing a paper.

8. And then you manage to stay awake in class the next day.

9. When you have to butter up your professor for an extra credit opportunity.

10. When you're assigned a group project.

11. And your group-mates are trying to chat about life instead of the assignment.

12. When it's your last class of the day and you're about to go home.

13. But then you remember rent is due tonight and the anger comes back.

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