What's wrong with Equal Fights?

[Puss in Cute]

I saw Lauren's sig and now I'm confused. I can understand why people hate Everyone Knows It's Bendy, but what's wrong with Equal Fights?

The only people I can imagine hating that episode are androphobic feminists like Femme Fatale.

[Rover_Wow]

I never thought of anything wrong about Equal Fights. The only other things I think people might have issues with are:
* the fact that the PPG have all that power, and yet they don't use it against the "wacko of the week" (personally, I don't care as long as you can get 11 minutes out of it... but I do have a problem with Mayor deciding to bring some old heros out of mothballs to fight some old villains, even though the PPG could probably run rings around both of them and "they" are trying to get 11 minutes out of that story)
* the fact that unlike most other PPG eps, this one actually has some sort of deep thought included: women (evil or not) shouldn't be treated any different from men. Or as Sara put it: "Life's not fair, but that's why we have you." (Hey, people have had issues against shows being too preachy...)

[Sharklady]

Femme Fatale stands out as the the one-and-only PPG villain who tried to neutralize the Girls using nothing but manipulation. She used a tactic that's all too common in real life; harping on a true social problem to convince the Puffs they were victums and therefore entitled- even obligated- to whine and complain about it. All done, not to help the problem, but just to serve Femme Fatale's ends.

Ms Keane and Bellum, the truely liberated women, set the record straight: being held to the same standards is the only true equality, and everybody's rights deserve protection.

A worthy lesson, and it's very unfortunate that a lot of viewers simply didn't get it. Maybe it was just a lot harder to understand than a good ol' punch-up.

[I.R Joey]

Personally I thought Equal Fights was a really interesting episode.. It kind of dealt with the idea of the radical, uncontrolled, and most importantly vitriolic ideas expressed by some people who call themselves feminist. I think the point that alot of people missed was that Femme Fatale was at best misguided and at worst a hypocrite (the later mostly) and was kind of misuing feminism for the sake of her own gains. I personally like it when a writer wraps a good, entertaining superhero story together with social commentary (just read some the Oneil and Adams Green Lantern/Green Arrow stuff from the early 70's, great stuff). And Femme Fatal, this suppousedly empowered, liberated woman ending the episode with the old cliche "but horizontal stripes make me look fat" was really funny in my opinion.

Anyway on one of the pleasent occasions I've gotten to correspond with Mrs. Faust I told her that the problem I think some people had with it was that they felt it kind of pushed the empowerment thing on us. Perhaps they felt that the Powerpuff girls were empowering enough without the need to whip out the soap box and take a whole episode and underline it. The whole thing with the Susan B. Anthony coin might have seemed over the top to some people. And the girls going through a whole history lesson might have put them off to. Maybe it came off like to much of an after school special for some people. Come to think of it the same could be said about the really funny episode AWSM.

It's funny because on a number of occasions she's said that she regrets writting the episode, and she told me why but I'll let her elaborate on it.

And by the way I don't think she has a signature on this site, does she?

[Puss in Cute]

And by the way I don't think she has a signature on this site, does she? Oops. That wasn't a sig I saw, it was just something she put at the bottom of one of her posts.


I have nightmares that I will be an old, old lady on my death bed with people yelling at me for Bendy and Equal Fights. I hope I can put them behind me someday.

[don Jaime]

"Equal Fights" gets chatty towards the end, but it's required so that's not a problem. It's definitely one of the better episodes. I don't know why anyone would have a problem with it.

PPG was a show about feminism and empowerment - name another cartoon with three female leads and no male ones. There's always been a lack of girls' shows on Saturday mornings. When I have daughters, they'll be watching PPG before a number of other things.