#tbh i don’t think i care as long as katara has that face card

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i finally saw the og post people were talking about (surprisingly on twt and not on here), and i still maintain that they weren’t trying to sexualize katara. were they reading way too much into the topic? yea there’s no denying it. i think they saw the different art styles/animation studios (which i did point out) and reached a wrong conclusion.

sometimes there is such a thing as over analyzing a kids show, and atp as a fandom we just gotta roll our eyes and move on, especially when the post is years old

and i’ll still say katara looks weird in that scene in dotbs part 1, the other screenshots you show from the same studio look so much better. again, not saying this was don’t on purpose or not bc it probably wasn’t, but why did they have to nerf her like that 💔

I will also say that zutara fans talking about Katara being "drawn more maturely in her scenes with Zuko" and even focusing on her breasts and hips is WILD when one of the most famous stories concerning Native American women is the rape of a like 10 year old by a man colonising her land.

Btw, Irene Bedard, the actress who voice acted for Pocahontas also starred in Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee which is about the life of Mary Brave Bird, activist and member of the American Indian Movement, and about her participation in the Siege at Wounded Knee in 1973. You can find the whole movie on YouTube.

It a very fun and thought provoking watch and Irene Bedard did a wonderful job playing the lead, despite this being her first acting role! She even became the first Native American woman nominated for the Golden Globe Award for this role (Best Performance by an Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series, or a Motion Picture Made for Television)!

So if you're looking for a really good movie starring a Native American woman, I recommend this one! It breaks the mold for a lot of tropes and streotypes around Native American women in media and you get to learn about a cool activist too.