Steven is able to recognize the cycle of abuse because of the joy and confidence nurtured from his family, the one Pink chose for him to be raised in. Garnet, Amythest, Pearl, and Greg might not have always understood what exactly Steven was, but they loved him enough to give him the space to figure it out for himself and to be whoever he wanted to be.
This is true,
I really did not want to show that. I really wanted the character to finally have privacy. As an audience watching the show, and as us writing it, we’re complicit in Steven feeling exposed. The idea of being in that space and watching him unpack it felt like a violation of his privacy. I wanted you to know that he was getting that help, and that he was taking steps to live the life he wanted to live, but I wanted him to be able to do it without the pressure of being the show’s protagonist anymore.
Really, Rebecca?
Throughout the show, his desire to prioritize everybody else’s well-being over his own has been a huge part of his character.
Steven's biggest problem is that he doesn't have limits, not that he's selfless.
“I didn’t want him to have to perform,” Sugar says. “I’m trying to set him free.”
Okay, so this is a mistake. Your a children's cartoon, one of the first to tackle this shit and instead of showing kids the healing process and helping them understand how people with PTSD, depression, anxiety and etc treat themselves and work on their problems.This could be a great teaching point for kids but instead you're more focused on hiding it to "set him free."
Stevonnie is an experience! The living relationship between Steven and Connie. What I love about Stevonnie is that we are working with a metaphor that is so complex and so specific but also really, really relatable, in the form of a character. Stevonnie challenges gender norms as an individual, but also serves as a metaphor for all the terrifying firsts in a first relationship, and what it feels like to hit puberty and suddenly find yourself with the body of an adult, how quickly that happens, how it feels to have a new power over people, or to suddenly find yourself objectified, all for seemingly no reason since you’re still just you… and they are still just them, they’re Steven and Connie who you already know and relate to, and if you do you can feel, for this episode, what all of those feelings are like. And they feel it too and that stays with them. I knew that was bound to be interesting to people, for at least one of all those reasons!
Sugar, WHAT THE FUCK. WHAT IN THE ACTUAL HELL?
Many families are failing their LGBTQ children by not allowing them to be whoever they are.
The metaphor with the Diamonds is more akin to one between Abusive Christians not letting their child be who she wants to be. It's not her being LGBTQ since we exclusively see her with dudes.
reconcile their relationships with someone who was abusive and the abuse that that person perpetrated.
But Steven isn't the abuser. He didn't hurt PP, he just yelled because he was angry. PP had what was essentially a flash back, which is Steven's fault. There's a huge difference between being abusive and accidentally making someone fearful of you.
Steven’s frustration and anger at his own inability to help Volleyball and the horror at what his mother is capable of reaches a boiling point and he lashes out in the same way that Pink Diamond did, screaming “I can’t deal with one more horrible thing she did! I just want to fix it!” re-traumatizing Volleyball and causing her to shrink away from him.
Hold up, so his mother literally traumatizing her "best friend" who is Steven's impromptu mother didn't faze him in anyway, yet finding out his mom basically slapped some random stranger is enough to set him off?
he cannot entirely separate who he is from his mother’s past abuses
He can and he should. He's not his mother, so why should he answer up to her mistakes?
In its latest episode, “Change Your Mind,” the cartoon creates a wonderful trans story, featuring main character Steven struggling to convince his biological family, Blue, Yellow and White Diamond, that he is a boy.
He isn't trying to convince the Diamonds he's a different identity from his mother. There's a difference. The diamonds aren't expecting that Steven be a boy, hell they probably don't understand the concept of sex, genitalia or any aspect of human reproduction. White Diamond has heard that this thing is now Pink Diamond, so she expected Pink Diamond It's a lot like how every Gem who has seen Steven thinks that he's Rose. Again, no concept of sex and human reproduction exists in their minds, so all they know is that this must be a Rose in a different shape. (Human zoo, humans are considered less and there's a chance not even the Gems know how the humans mate because the Amethyst seem a little... Detached.)
Moral censorship is the removal of materials that are obscene or otherwise considered morally questionable. Pornography, for example, is often censored under this rationale, especially child pornography, which is illegal and censored in most jurisdictions in the world.[17][18]
Is a large majority of censorship under this rationale? Why? Who mainly does it?