What I find most funny about shadow slave is that yes humanity finally overcame misogyny, toxic masculinity (main characters being literally being short king somewhat a househusband and still being most deadly (ha.) Man on earth, kai literally without problem asking sunny what skin products he uses likes its most normal thing ever (it is) ) NOCTIS in his ancient time going around with nail Polish (and liner to??? But idk if that really happend or my hcs get meshed up) toxic feminine and gender disputes, (dont even get me started on weaver ) homophobia ( that is not outright stated and we do not have any canonically queer characters but come on most of the cast is outright bi or pan bcs litteraly EVERYBODY around is drop dead gorgeous which makes it very easy to switch sides, and nobody really cares about gender/sex rules cares atp), religious/national and racial disputes (for obvious reasons)
And only thing that was needed was end of the world and a fucking apocalypse, lmao.
Not to be a downer, but my impression is that it's less that humanity has overcome sexism and more that awakened women are exempt from it (for obvious and practical reasons). The way the handmaidens appeared on the surface implies some misogyny and Effie's teasing of how Sunny wearing dresses indicates the culture isn't that far from our own.

















