so there’s something in s3 that really bothers me that is in the grand scheme of things very minor. They seemed to make a huge deal over all female teams. At first if was the Electras, they ranted about how women were the best football players, whatever. Then they made a big deal over D’jok joining a team who’s other members were exclusively women. THEN they made a big deal in 1 episode(i can’t remember which one) that 2 all female teams were playing against each other. This makes me irrationally angry.

 If there’s one thing s3 does, it’s ruin pre-established things about the GF worldbuilding, this is one of those things, in my opinion. Before, it had been established that ANYONE can play in ANY team they want, the only requirement being having the same flux. Unlike in our world where teams are seperated by sex, in GF, women and men can play in the same teams. With The Xenons and Red Tigers as a notable exception, pretty much every team has had at least 1 female player, even though pretty much only the SK, Wambas and Pirates have different character models,making it hard to differentiate sometimes. The shadows have Nihla, who was referred to as “she” by Aarch in s1,even if she looks the same as her male teammates. Sarlight (a Lightnings player) is referred to as “beautiful” in ch3 of the novelisation, though their pronouns are never stated and they look like the rest of their team(and,who knows,maybe the lightnings really DON’T have any differences other than just color). And while,yes, there are a lot more men in these teams than women, i can almost guarantee that the reason was “they didn’t want/have the time or budget to make 2 separate character models for each team” which i honestly cant blame them for. “they could have mentioned it”, no, they really couldn’t. None of these background character players were important enough to get talked about in the series, so they wouldn’t have their pronouns mentioned. You can see with the Wambas that they COULD and probably WANTED to have more diversity in these character models, but they probably just didn’t have the time/budget. We probably would have gotten more canonically female players, but what can you do. (i mean, if Aarch didn’t confirm Nihla was female in s1, everyone,including me, probably would have assumed the shadows were an all male team because of the character models being the same and having no in-universe indication all Shadows looked the same biologically)

 This is a universe where gender(and lack of it,seeing as robots can play) DOES NOT MATTER in the slightest. NO ONE CARES, and no one SHOULD logically care. If they live in a universe where anyone can play, it would make no sense for people to make a big deal out of something as insignificant as gender. And that’s how it was in the first 2 seasons,as far as i remember, no one even MENTIONED the Rykers being an all female team,or underestimated them in the slightest, why would they? The Rykers were seen as fucking terrifying, rightfully so. You didn’t need to be TOLD that these women were powerful and a great team, you were SHOWN they were.

Which is why that thing from s3 makes me angry. Besides the general storytelling rule of “show dont tell”, it just reminds me of that fake corporate kind of f3minism that puts a bad taste in my mouth. Like how hollywood seems to think that giving female characters special treatment they didnt have to work for(like mulan in the remake (which completely ruins the story btw)) or constantly pointing out to the audience “HEYY!! ARENT THESE CHARACTERS COOL,, AND THEY’RE !!!WOMEN!!! HEY GUYS IMAGINE THE IDEA OF WOMEN BEING SOMEWHAT CAPABLE!! GUYS AREN’T WE SO REVOLUTIONARY AND PROGRESSIVE FOR HAVING FEMALE CHARACTERS THAT AREN’T COMPLETE DAMSELS IN DISTRESS?? BUY OUR PRODUCT CUZ WE’RE SO PR0GRESSIVE AND COOL U GUYS WE SWEAR WE DON’T HATE WOMEN” is saying something(which it isn’t, and in fact makes a spectacle of capable women existing in fiction and in real life, which, suprise! in turn makes people think that women cannot be competent or equal to men unless they are an exception. WHICH IS OBVIOUSLY A BAD THING TO DO. And besides that just generally being bad, AS WE ESTABLISHED BEFORE, it also has no place in the Galactik Football universe, where we are shown that, while the Zaelion galaxy has in canon issues, gender equality is not one of them.)

Edit: i edited this post because i ..THINK it got shadow bann3d? Idk it wasn't showing up in "galactik football" latest search results. Hopefully me editing out the words s3xism and f3minism fixed it (and if it shows up in searches we'll know if those words are ACTUALLY what bann3d it. Thanks Tumblr for banning harmless words, very cool 👍)