#specially when the narrative does not EXPLICITLY AND VEHEMENTLY CONDEMN IT

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Look, here’s the thing about Mineta - if he didn’t have that overused, stupid as fuck ‘Funny Sexual Harassment/Degenerate Pervert’ shtick going on, he’d be a genuinely interesting character.

I don’t mind cowardly characters! I really don’t! 

Getting to see them become brave and step up to the plate when they’re most needed is fucking awesome, even if they’re scaredy cats! Usopp from One Piece is one of my favorite characters, and I will admit that he is a coward!

(Also like, Courage the Cowardly Dog? He may just be my favorite character ever, period!) 

I love seeing characters like that doing what Mineta is doing right now - putting aside their fear to do what’s right and to help their friends! Mineta’s little monologue about noticing how scared Izuku is and how Izuku’s still pushing through it, and in turn becoming emboldened by Izuku’s courage-

If he didn’t have that pervert side of him, I’d be cheering him on right now!

Christ, when will mangaka fucking learn that this shit ruins characters? This isn’t funny, this isn’t new - it’s old, tired, and boring as fuck to have to witness!

And it doesn’t matter that ‘well, he gets punished for that’ because he (and EVERY SINGLE OTHER PERVERT LIKE HIM IN MANGA AND ANIME) never fucking learns better. It never changes their attitude whenever they get beaten up or dropkicked into next week - they just come right back and do it again.

(The only reason for that is so the mangaka - AND THE STANS WATCHING IT - can be like ‘well, he got punished, so it’s all right!!!!11111′ when it’s not.)

An example: Sanji from One Piece used to be one of my favorite characters. 

The Baratie arc was fucking awesome, I loved the backstory, loved his abilities, cheered him on, and cried when he did. Then comes the reveal that well, what matters most to him in the world is a beautiful woman!!11111 And making sure she stays perfectly pristine!!!!!1111 Even if she’s a fucking trained assassin-okay, that’s a rant for another day.

But he violated his supposedly ‘precious’ nakama’s body during Punk Hazard because he needed to feel her breasts and see them EVEN WHEN SHE TOLD HIM NOT TO. He peeped on his female nakama while they were in the bath. He perved on a sixteen year old girl, and all the other bullshit he’s pulled. He does shit like this again and again and again and now it’s to the point where I can’t fucking stand to look at him whenever he appears.

It doesn’t matter anymore that he’s a remarkably intelligent man, an excellent strategist, and an amazing fighter. It doesn’t matter that he has some badass one-liners, shitty puns, and a sense of style that appeals to me deeply.

Because his author decided that making him a pervert was more important than any of that. And now his character is ruined for me. I don’t care about him, and I don’t think I ever will.

Mineta had the opportunity to be an amusing, hilarious character! (How did he manage to get into UA with such a Quirk? His design is hilarious, I like cowardly characters and how they become brave, etc, etc) 

But I’m so apathetic towards that shitty, overused, frankly unoriginal as fuck trope that I just don’t particularly care! 

It’s such a stupid trope, and I’m sick and tired of it.