Cancelling Steven x Spinel doesn’t protect anyone
So many people have been recently attacking this ship and calling it pedophilic, naturally, these people think they’re top shit. The people who hate on the Steven x Spinel ship are holier-than-thou people who think they’re woke for jumping on a hate bandwagon and getting kudos rather than actually fixing an issue.
Well, get off your high horses and let me tell you the ACTUAL problem at hand because you guys are hating on the ship.. for the completely wrong reasons. All of you are linking pedophilia to age gaps… and ONLY age gaps when there’s so much more to it. Pedophilia is more of a mental power thing than anything, a mental power that mentally unstable Spinel has no part in. Pedophilia starts becoming a problem when a person who is in a higher position in terms of knowledge is persuading minors who don’t know any better, knowledge that Spinel clearly doesn’t have. They manipulate you, control you for their pleasure and lust and that’s why it’s a problem. Pedophilia is an obsession and fetishization of kids who don’t know any better.
This ship HAS NONE OF THAT. Spinel, the one who is physically way older than Steven, IS CLEARLY NOT LIKE THAT, and we, the shippers, clearly don’t ship it that way. You guys are going on an innocent picture of them holding hands and call it pedophilic for fuck’s sake.
Spinel doesn’t fall under the terms of a pedophile if she were to date Steven. She isn’t manipulating him into acts for her pleasure, she isn’t fetishizing his young age, hell I don’t think she even knows how aging works in the first place seeing as GEMS DON’T AGE. Which brings me to my next point.
GEMS DON’T AGE, not physically at least. The closest we can get to aging an ageless gem is by their mental age. Spinel was coded to be a child, she has no knowledge of ANYTHING other than how to be entertaining, SHE LITERALLY HAS NO KNOWLEDGE IN ANYTHING ELSE, SHE WAS LIVING HER LIFE PURPOSE AND WAS LATER ABANDONED FOR 6000 YEARS. You think she’s going to learn how to manipulate, persuade, and control children because she somehow grew some sort of fetish with them while standing still for 6,000 years? Hell no! We can see that Spinel is clearly not a child, but she’s not an adult either. Again, Gems age mentally, but Spinel wasn’t able to grow into an adult like Pearl and Garnet are considered to be because she was abandoned. She has no experience in anything, other than her entertainment tricks, of course. She didn’t get the chance to mature and grow like Garnet and Pearl got to. So if she isn’t a child, and she isn’t an adult.. that leaves her as that in-between stage, a teenager.
You guys argue that there are adults who act like children, but Spinel is just clearly not an adult, she has no experience in anything, no knowledge in anything, and she very clearly isn’t mature like one, seeing as she irrationally took her anger out on a bunch of strangers. The definition of an adult is “ a person who is fully grown or developed.” Spinel can’t grow physically, that leaves her mental development which is very minimal, you know, due to the fact that she couldn’t exactly grow due to being stuck at a garden for thousands of years. This isn’t to degrade any mental headcanons you may have of Spinel, but she was coded to be an entertainer, that’s all she was and knew for most of her life meaning that she didn’t get to experience life outside of her knowledge in entertainment until now.
In conclusion, pedophilia is much more than just an age gap, fuck you for assuming it is, human rules don’t apply to rock aliens, and Stevnel is not pedophilic.
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