| | |On the surface, it looks like a harmless show promoting family unity among a half-human-half-alien child, his loving human father, and his extra-terrestrial friends who teach the boy how to use his superpowers. However, looks are deceiving—it's really a show that exposes children to filth. First, the series promotes gender confusion, as the alien characters, while they look like women, are actually androgynous, and it tries to use their androgyny to justify their lesbian and bisexual behavior (which is based on [https://www.autostraddle.com/rebecca-sugar-is-bisexual-steven-universe-creator-comes-out-at-comic-con-346094/ the series creator's bisexual lifestyle]). As a result of these sexless aliens looking like women, the series is extremely [[Feminism|feminist]], with the female-looking aliens and even genuinely female humans portrayed as much more powerful or at least more competent than the male characters, many of whom are weak, silly, or incompetent. When male characters show some form of competence, such as the hero's father's skills with construction, the feminists who rule the show give said male characters less credit than they deserve. Some episodes feature the title character going from being male to being "fused" with his female love interest to make a disturbingly androgynous hybrid. Lastly, innuendoes are peppered throughout. The fan base of this show is one of the most aggressive on the Internet, and it infamously [http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-fanartist-bullied-controversy/ bullied another fan to attempt suicide after she drew fan art that didn't depict the boy's obese mother, who died before the series began, as obese]. All we can say is thank goodness this show is definitely not rated TV-Y. | | |On the surface, it looks like a harmless show promoting family unity among a half-human-half-alien child, his loving human father, and his extra-terrestrial friends who teach the boy how to use his superpowers. However, looks are deceiving—it's really a show that exposes children to filth. First, the series promotes gender confusion, as the alien characters, while they look like women, are actually androgynous, and it tries to use their androgyny to justify their lesbian and bisexual behavior (which is based on [https://www.autostraddle.com/rebecca-sugar-is-bisexual-steven-universe-creator-comes-out-at-comic-con-346094/ the series creator's bisexual lifestyle]). As a result of these sexless aliens looking like women, the series is extremely [[Feminism|feminist]], with the female-looking aliens and even genuinely female humans portrayed as much more powerful or at least more competent than the male characters, many of whom are weak, silly, or incompetent. When male characters show some form of competence, such as the hero's father's skills with construction, the feminists who rule the show give said male characters less credit than they deserve. Some episodes feature the title character going from being male to being "fused" with his female love interest to make a disturbingly androgynous hybrid. Lastly, innuendoes are peppered throughout. The fan base of this show is one of the most aggressive on the Internet, and it infamously [http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-fanartist-bullied-controversy/ bullied another fan to attempt suicide after she drew fan art that didn't depict the boy's obese mother, who died before the series began, as obese]. All we can say is thank goodness this show is definitely not rated TV-Y. |