If the female outfit-related outrage fest of the day feels a little like deja vu to you, that's because it is! Almost two years ago, Twitter was awash with internet men ready to go to war over Margot Robbie's notably unsexualized performance of Harley Quinn in "Birds of Prey," a movie in which Harley's main love interest and object of desire is a greasy breakfast sandwich. Grillo-Marxuach told the outlet last summer that the show " to have a real human being wearing that," of Faye's outfit.
That means toning down Faye's remarkably impractical outfit and replacing it with something more realistic, and less centered around sexual wish fulfillment for male audiences who are aroused by cartoons. That looks NOTHING like Faye Valentine," one Twitter user wrote, expressing shocked dismay that a real-life human woman "looks NOTHING" like an animated, fictional cartoon woman with a DDDD cup size and 12-inch waist.Īnother concerned citizen tweeted, "I need my Faye Valentine slutty wit the puppies out, idk what the f**k this is." By "this," the user means an outfit that a human woman can move and do human woman things in, as opposed to the more revealing garb of the inanimate sex dolls he may be more accustomed to spending his nights with.Īs Javier Grillo-Marxuach, a writer on the new "Cowboy Bebop," told Gizmodo as early as last year, the modern, live-action show has long been planning to get with the times. Just like her male peers, she's reasonably dressed for her role, and men of the interwebs are losing their minds over this. Pineda as Faye is adorned in stylish but practical attire for an intergalactic bounty hunter who regularly spars with violent outlaws, and leaps from planet to planet on the regular. Most fans are feeling the hype, but many male, internet basement dwellers are quite predictably rallying on social media to protest the unthinkable injustice of an onscreen woman existing while not being dressed or designed to titillate. Thanks to Netflix, the 1990s-era anime space romp is getting a live-action makeover that promises to be a standout, even at a time of arguably way more live-action remakes than we need (looking at you, "Avatar: the Last Airbender" and pretty much every Disney animated film ever).
Thus, "space cowboys" or registered bounty hunters like Spike, Jet and Faye emerge to hunt and bring intergalactic offenders to justice. "Cowboy Bebop" is set way in the future, at a time when travel across moons and planets is the norm, and, unsurprisingly, crime rates across the universe are quite high. In any case, the fictional bounty hunter stoking outrage this time around is Faye Valentine, portrayed by Daniella Pineda in the forthcoming Netflix remake of the popular sci-fi anime, which also stars walking thirst trap John Cho as protagonist Spike Spiegel and Mustafa Shakir as fellow bounty hunter Jet Black. This male outrage follows a long, ongoing history of pitchfork-wielding men gathering in their town square of choice, be that Twitter or Reddit, and declaring war on any onscreen depiction of a female character that doesn't sexually gratify them. about one character's not revealing outfit. Surprise, surprise! Men of the World Wide Web have mobilized once again - no, not over the rapidly worsening climate catastrophe, stagnant wages, the broken health care system, or endemic rape culture, but rather, over a real issue: the outfit of a female bounty hunter in the live-action adaptation of beloved anime series "Cowboy Bebop." Netflix released first-look images Monday, and the reaction was quite revealing.