The family I babysit for, when I first met them the mother told me I probably would not talk with the father much because he usually doesn’t “deal with” the babysitters. I thought yeah, sure, why should a father care about who is going to spend hours alone with his kids? And she was telling the truth too. I see him more than her but he never talks to me. Even the other day he was there for a while, the mother arrived home and he told her to ask me about something. I was like… sir??? Don’t your have a mouth???
I realize it’s just because they’re trying to introduce the audience to the concept of Pokemon and everything but nothing will ever be funnier to me than prof oak being like “these are creatures called Pokemon, they live in all sorts of environments!” like imagine if you met a biology professor and they were like ‘I’ve been studying these intriguing creatures called “animals’
I maintain that Pokemon starts to make a lot more sense when you stop thinking of the Professors as biologists and start thinking of them as children’s science communicators, which, in a world where children as young as 10 are expected to make their way in a world populated by superpowered fauna almost entirely alone, stands as an important and laudable career. “There are 150 animals” becomes the in-universe equivalent of “There are three states of matter.” There’s too much information in this field to dump on a grade-schooler all at once, so Professor Oak is here to mete out animal facts as they become relevant in an easy-to-understand way.
That being said, I would love to see what kind of shit the real Pokemon biologists are on. I’m just imagining some disheveled, overcaffienated researcher writing a grant proposal for their study on why certain wingull seem to evolve into pelipper faster when they hatched in the winter or something. There’s bird shit on their glasses. They haven’t left the lighthouse in months. This is their life’s work. Ash Ketchum doesn’t need to know about real Pokémon biology.
The phrase ‘victim wanted it’ paints a picture of the abuser as a completely spineless, obedient and moral-lacking person who only ever does things which others want. Surely they were only ready to violate, abuse and harm this person because this person asked them to, they did it out of pure altruism! In what fairy tale does this abuser live. Have you ever even seen anything like that in real life. Whenever you hear 'victim wanted it’, you can be sure the abuser wanted it more, and was ready to groom the victim very hard in order to get to a place where the victim would allow it and not give resistance. Or, you know, the victim did resist, but the abuser decided to ignore it and convince the victim that was for 'their own good’.
Often the abusers who say this are way older than the victims, which put even more disbelief at the 'victim wanted it’ statement. If a child asked you to throw it into a fire, is it your responsibility to know that it’s wrong, or the child’s? Stop believing bullshit abusers say in order to get away with abuse.
