You know how people get super pent up about people who ship Bakugou & Uraraka because it’s ‘abusive’ but are we gonna talk about the fact Bakugou has never actually been abusive to Uraraka.
People say “oh but the tournament battle!!!” Like Bakugou fought Uraraka the exact same way he fought Kirishima and Todoroki. Yes he was brutal and vigilant but he was with everyone that’s how he is as a person. Bakugou wasn’t stupid enough to underestimate her simply because she’s female he knew she was a strong opponent and acknowledges her as such. Implying that Bakugou should’ve fundamentally gone easy on Uraraka or treated her differently to everyone else is sexist. If Uraraka was male people wouldn’t say anything about it but because she’s female it’s suddenly abuse. Y’all fine with Kirib@ku/B@kushima despite the fact he was just as brutal with him in the tournament arc yet suddenly go ape shit when it’s Bakugou and Uraraka. Just admit you’re sexist and stop trying to hide behind some form of warped shipping activism to justify that sexism.
TO ADD!
Aizawa acknowledged that what Bakugou was doing was right and that going easy on Uraraku would be the wrong thing to do and how the pros should’ve been ashamed of themselves for booing him, because ALL OF THOSE KIDS ARE THERE TO FIGHT TO THE BEST OF THEIR ABILITY.
Like y’all have an entire televised tournament where you cheer for teenagers to beat the shit out of each other but yeah let’s pump the breaks on this one fighter cuz she’s a cute girl.
Y’all have an entire, well-known, best of the best school where the first thing they did was KILLER ROBOT COMBAT but yeah let’s pump the breaks on this one fighter cuz she’s a cute girl.
Also how could you say that Bakugou doing that was wrong when it led Uraraku to start doing combat training and everyone likes that she does that now? We all cheered for her pinning Himiko down and taking Thirteen off guard, and she wouldn’t have even gotten to that point IF THAT BAKUGOU FIGHT DIDN’T HAPPEN!
Honestly her fighting against him was the best thing that could’ve happened to her because everyone else in the class would’ve gone soft on her and that would lead to zero growth as a hero.
Stop trying to pin Bakugou in your stereotypical asshole character trope when he’s more nuanced than that.