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I think I'm the only one in tlok fandom that doesn't think the scene where Unalaq destroy Raava is a SA allegory.

Hear me out.

We already have scenes with strong SA subtext and allegories throughout the whole season 1:

Just look at these "The Voice in the Night" scenes. Tell me it doesn't give you the creeps? A helpless girl, surrounded by ppl (mostly men), forcing her into a submissive position (on her kness with two ppl holding her arms). And with Amon invading her personal space and touching her face, forcing her to look at him

Oh and thats how Tenzin found her and what Korra had to say about this encounter:

Not enough? Look at Tahno before and after having his bending taken away:

Look at Lin Beifong, moments before having her bending taken away.

Korra, scare af but still trying to expose Amon

And this is Korra after Amon took her bending. Oh, and this is even after her defeated him.

What we have from these scenes is that not only the scene presents itself as a visual nod to SA scenes with: the subjugation/submission, the unwanted physical touch, the invasion of a person's body, having someone force something on you and your body. But also a follow-up and an emotional payoff we didn't had in Korra vs Unalaq.

Yes, after Raava was ripped out, Korra was depressed but a little after that she was beating him up, and in b3 she didn't show any feelings or trauma towards it. Aka it had no follow-up, no long term emotional consequence. While in b1, even after defeating Amon, she was suicidal bc that had longer emotional consequence on her.

See the difference? Actually, here we have the difference between something that was prob done purposely and something done by accident. One was present during the whole season and had longer emotional consequences and payoff, the other hadn't.

You can argue that s2 Korra kind of forgot about this but I would argue different bc she was too irritated, too on edge, too emotional for "no reason". Tbh I dont think it was intentional, or maybe intentionally as consequense of her last encounter with Amon bc s1 was suposed to be a stand alone, and thats why it feels so disconnected with the rest of the show bla bla bla, but still it leaves room for this interpretation: She was unbearable in the beginning of s2 bc she was desperately trying to gain the agency Amon took from her, she was still emotionally messed up by that encounter. Being "unbearable" is also a symptom of depression and trauma

This would explain the "don't tell me what to do" attitude. She wanted to be, to feel in control.

And before you say im putting double standarts, in s3 Korra is just fine. Literally nothing happens so we didn't even has something to interpretate. Sure, if you stretch you can say she was in denial or smt but she was just too fine during the whole s3 not one single slip that could vote for this.

Also, it would be a huge irresponsibility to do that on purpose and not make Korra's PTSD arc about that. An uncle emotionally manipulating his niece and a scene with SA allegories? That's not something you pretend it didn't happen. So, narratively speaking, if that was done by purpose, it would have to have a follow-up.

Sure, the Northern Tribe might have benders, but they have such a different culture/identity around bending compared to the South. We see in Hama's flashbacks that the Southern Tribe had male and female benders at the helm, fighting equally, learning the same things, sharing the same tactics. They weren't left behind as strictly healers or defenseless women given a man's gift, they were strong.

And the thing that separates Katara and Aang's stories being the last benders of their nations is that Aang remembers what it means to be an Air Nomad. There are obviously blind spots because of how young he was, but Aang knows the customs and the culture and spiritual practices. He was able to pass those down to Tenzin and his grandchildren, he was able to start the process of rebuilding what was lost.

But Katara? She was even younger than Aang was when the Southern waterbenders were eradicated. There are Southern practices that are most definetly just... a fractured part of history because she never got to experience them. There are ways of hunting, of building, of navigating the waters, ways of healing, probably even spiritbending, that are simply lost to time.

And maybe her grandmother can clue her into it, memories from a nonbender living aside benders, but it's not the same. She didn't get to hear it from the waterbenders, she didn't get to learn from a Southern waterbender, she doesn't even know what to rebuild because it was never something she was versed in.

That's why The Puppet Master is such a heartbreaking episode. Because Hama could have been the Southern teacher Katara clearly wanted, she could have shown her more, but ended up passing on her legacy of Bloodbending. And on the inverse, I can't even fully call Hama a villain for wanting Katara to know how to bloodbend, because the ache of thinking you were the only one left for so long, the rage against a Nation known for destroying nations, would've driven anyone insane.

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