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|Don't let the cutesy character designs fool you in this one. On the surface, it looks like a harmless animated series about the beauty of family unity among a half-human-half-alien child, his benevolent human father, and his extraterrestrial friends who exist as sentient gemstones with holographic bodies made of light and help the boy discover his superpowers so he can protect earth from otherworldly threats. However, looks are deceiving—it really exposes children to several varieties of filth. First, the series teaches that gender confusion is "normal", 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]). Because these sexless aliens look like women, the series has [[Feminism|feminist]] implications: the feminine-presenting aliens and even genuinely female humans are much more powerful or at least more competent than the male characters, many of whom are weak, silly, or incompetent. Sometimes, male characters show some form of competence, as when the hero's father Greg—a formerly rebellious community college dropout turned responsible parent—shows his strong parental instincts, skills with construction, or even defensive driving skills, but the feminists who rule the show give said male characters less credit than they deserve. Lastly, innuendoes are peppered throughout, especially in terms of "fusions", which were originally supposed to be battle tactics that involved combining the aliens' bodies and minds to form more powerful entities before the show's liberal writers shoehorned in the idea that fusions are expressions of the aliens' "love" for one another. Some episodes even feature Steven himself going from being male to being "fused" with female love interest Connie to make a disturbingly androgynous hybrid, dubbed ''Stevonnie'' by series regular Amethyst and shown to be one of the strongest characters in combat.

|Don't let the cutesy character designs fool you in this one. On the surface, it looks like a harmless animated series about the beauty of family unity among a half-human-half-alien child, his benevolent human father, and his extraterrestrial friends who exist as sentient gemstones with holographic bodies made of light and help the boy discover his superpowers so he can protect earth from otherworldly threats. However, looks are deceiving—it really exposes children to several varieties of filth. First, the series teaches that gender confusion is "normal", 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]). Because these sexless aliens look like women, the series has [[Feminism|feminist]] implications: the feminine-presenting aliens and even genuinely female humans are much more powerful or at least more competent than the male characters, many of whom are weak, silly, or incompetent. Sometimes, male characters show some form of competence, as when the hero's father Greg—a formerly rebellious community college dropout turned responsible parent—shows his strong parental instincts, skills with construction, or even defensive driving skills, but the feminists who rule the show give said male characters less credit than they deserve. Lastly, innuendoes are peppered throughout, especially in terms of "fusions", which were originally supposed to be battle tactics that involved combining the aliens' bodies and minds to form more powerful entities before the show's liberal writers shoehorned in the idea that fusions are expressions of the aliens' "love" for one another. Some episodes even feature Steven himself going from being male to being "fused" with female love interest Connie to make a disturbingly androgynous hybrid, dubbed ''Stevonnie'' by series regular Amethyst and shown to be one of the strongest characters in combat.

The series' fan base, while it does not make up a large percent of the world's population, is one of the most vocally aggressive in the world. In October 2015, some fans [http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-fanartist-bullied-controversy/ bullied a teenage fan artist to attempt suicide] because she submitted fan art to the Internet in which she drew Steven's long-deceased, plump alien mother Rose Quartz as skinny. Subsequently, the fan base became so divided that the show's writers were forced to get involved. Likewise, series storyboard artist Lauren Zuke was harassed after she shared fan art on [[Twitter]] by those fans who believed she was advocating a "Lapidot" ship (that is, a fantasy relationship pairing between recurring characters Lapis Lazuli and Peridot) over other fan-preferred pairings of the show’s characters, none of which is official canon.

The series' fan base, while it does not make up a large percent of the world's population, is one of the most vocally aggressive in the world. In October 2015, some fans [http://www.dailydot.com/parsec/steven-universe-fanartist-bullied-controversy/ bullied a teenage fan artist to attempt suicide] because she submitted fan art to the Internet in which she drew Steven's long-deceased, plump alien mother Rose Quartz as skinny. Subsequently, the fan base became so divided that the show's writers were forced to get involved. Likewise, series storyboard artist Lauren Zuke was harassed after she shared fan art on [[Twitter]] by those fans who believed she was advocating a "Lapidot" ship (that is, a fantasy relationship pairing between recurring characters Lapis Lazuli and Peridot) over other fan-preferred pairings of the show’s characters, none of which is official canon.