#gojo suffers from unconscious bias

[jgnico]

i read a comment on twitter i believe saying people who dislike gojohime but ship satosugu are hypocrites because geto betrayed gojo and gojo murdered geto. so no, i don't think they realise utahime dislikes gojo, the reach of that nor the damaging behaviour behind trying to make gojo x utahime a thing. i think they believe their fights are a sign of chemistry, as if utahime is a tsundere. they cannot comprehend that she's an adult and the implications of gojo's behaviour towards her. or even the impacts of his sole existence. it's quite weird because the whole point of jjk seems to jump over their head. gege introduced in jjk the topic of mysoginy, developed it quite a bit and talked about how women are treated in jjk society but they believe that's a sign of romance somehow. i don't understand how that makes sense tbh

Not even gonna touch disputes on shipping, --because that's always a headache to get into-- but Geto presents more as an equal to Gojo.

When they fight in that first chapter of the arc its because Gojo is calling out Geto's logic toward his duty as a sorcerer. Its a difference of opinions toward their jobs, but we know that they're both arguing from the same pedestal as Special Grades. Even with Geto's betrayal and death, they never stopped being equals.

With Utahime, it's just Gojo picking on someone weaker than him, both in terms of raw power and within Jujutsu society. I doubt that its intentionally malicious (because he's a teenager and he likes getting a rise out of people, that's his personality) but Gojo also benefits from the fact that he outranked her from the day he was born.

On top of that, Geto also gets called out (by Mei Mei iirc) for calling Utahime weak, because he may not have a rare clan technique that made him a Special Grade at birth, but he certainly was one by the time we see him in that chapter. So him and Gojo are in the same boat here.

Both of them benefit from being born extraordinarily powerful in a system that rewards strength, but they have the added benefit of being men in a society that will automatically place them above their female counterparts. (Makes you wonder why the only female special-grade is so focused on getting rid of Curses and by exstension, the need for that society to exist in the first place.)

So I can't see Utahime having any kind of affection for a man that has always been placed above her by the people around her despite her own capabilities as a Grade 1 (which is incredibly strong as far as Sorcerers are concerned) and who constantly reminds her of that fact. Even moving into their lives as adults, he still makes it hard for her to keep the respect that she worked hard for.

It's just wild to me that Gege can show us over and over again that Jujutsu society has a very real and prevalent problem with misogyny (including Momo blatantly laying it out for us during the exchange event) and it's just... swept under the rug for "what-ifs."

[jgnico]

Love the additions!

Also wanted to add:

Gojo is the only person that can afford to challenge the status quo the way that he does. Not just because of his technique, but because of his position as the head of his clan. He quite literally is at the highest point politically that you can be if you're not a higher up. So he can push for a revolution, but there aren't any benefits to doing so if he's the one that does it. It'd just be the powerful eating the powerful. Hence him wanting his students to change how things are done instead. (I have further thoughts on this specific point, but moving on.)

100% agree on all the points toward how women are treated and how they can't afford to show weakness or struggle lest they be thought less of, but I also wanted to say that this sociery effects the men too. We see it in how they carry forward toxic ideas and traits, how it instills bias within them (both conscious and unconscious) and how it even effects their own standing.

Take the Perfect Preparation Arc for example. Maki and Mai weren't punished just because they were weak in the eyes of their family. They were also punished because their weakness caused Ogi to be skipped over as the rightful head of the clan. He was the heir up until it was found out that not only did he have twins (an ill omen) but twins that were girls with low cursed energy and only one technique between them.

Does that excuse how fucking awful garbage of a father he was? No but it shows us that everyone has and will continue to suffer the longer that this goes on.

-- The Geto situation is the culmination of a completely different system of toxicity, but I agree that he wasn't thinking of Gojo when he defected. He was thinking of the people that died (Riko, Kuroi, Haibara) for a society that had already hurt him and the two little girls in front of him. Because if he hadn't defected, their options were to stay in that cage and eventually die from neglect or become sorcerers at the mercy of that same society and die later on. Hence why he's repeatedly said that his actions are about justice.

i read a comment on twitter i believe saying people who dislike gojohime but ship satosugu are hypocrites because geto betrayed gojo and gojo murdered geto. so no, i don't think they realise utahime dislikes gojo, the reach of that nor the damaging behaviour behind trying to make gojo x utahime a thing. i think they believe their fights are a sign of chemistry, as if utahime is a tsundere. they cannot comprehend that she's an adult and the implications of gojo's behaviour towards her. or even the impacts of his sole existence. it's quite weird because the whole point of jjk seems to jump over their head. gege introduced in jjk the topic of mysoginy, developed it quite a bit and talked about how women are treated in jjk society but they believe that's a sign of romance somehow. i don't understand how that makes sense tbh

Not even gonna touch disputes on shipping, --because that's always a headache to get into-- but Geto presents more as an equal to Gojo.

When they fight in that first chapter of the arc its because Gojo is calling out Geto's logic toward his duty as a sorcerer. Its a difference of opinions toward their jobs, but we know that they're both arguing from the same pedestal as Special Grades. Even with Geto's betrayal and death, they never stopped being equals.

With Utahime, it's just Gojo picking on someone weaker than him, both in terms of raw power and within Jujutsu society. I doubt that its intentionally malicious (because he's a teenager and he likes getting a rise out of people, that's his personality) but Gojo also benefits from the fact that he outranked her from the day he was born.

On top of that, Geto also gets called out (by Mei Mei iirc) for calling Utahime weak, because he may not have a rare clan technique that made him a Special Grade at birth, but he certainly was one by the time we see him in that chapter. So him and Gojo are in the same boat here.

Both of them benefit from being born extraordinarily powerful in a system that rewards strength, but they have the added benefit of being men in a society that will automatically place them above their female counterparts. (Makes you wonder why the only female special-grade is so focused on getting rid of Curses and by exstension, the need for that society to exist in the first place.)

So I can't see Utahime having any kind of affection for a man that has always been placed above her by the people around her despite her own capabilities as a Grade 1 (which is incredibly strong as far as Sorcerers are concerned) and who constantly reminds her of that fact. Even moving into their lives as adults, he still makes it hard for her to keep the respect that she worked hard for.

It's just wild to me that Gege can show us over and over again that Jujutsu society has a very real and prevalent problem with misogyny (including Momo blatantly laying it out for us during the exchange event) and it's just... swept under the rug for "what-ifs."