Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4224349-20150205230904/@comment-25471332-20150206045652

These ‘gem’-themed episodes are always going to be a favorite of mine & this one is no exception.

I never thought Amethyst would be the “genetic experiment” character (I love those kinds because they have such interesting backstories). I love her so much more now, even though Pearl’s still my favorite. Garnet’s always been my #2 with Amethyst as my #3.

Now I can’t stop thinking about what Garnet said with, “We kept Amethyst,” and with Pearl laughing. Was that a possible “racist-like” joke for gems like Amethyst by gems like Pearl and Garnet if not just Garnet and Pearl making fun of Amethyst’s wild/crazy/liable-like character. I say “racist-like” because for one thing, that’s the best word I can think of without making one up (like “birthist”), second, of how it’s like even though all humans are pretty much the same but with insignificant differences, different humans still find superiority among humans with insignificant differences.

Even though I can’t help but be a little more doubtful of Pearl and now Garnet’s morals (and not just of Pearl and Amethyst’s morals for their comments of humanity in “Keep Beach City Weird”), I still wasn’t that shaken in my “favorite characters list.” Reason being, I feel that GAP are no different from humans and have their own biases of people different from them and are imperfect like us in that aspect, but still are capable of dissolving those biases overtime.

Pearl’s argument against Amethyst in the episode when Amethyst was claiming Pearl looked down on her for her upbringing makes me think this supports that at least Pearl (and probably Garnet, too) don’t consciously belittle Amethyst for her upbringing, if at all.

I really hope Garnet and Pearl don’t look down on Amethyst for the way she was brought up, even though it seems like they don’t (with questionable exceptions like in “Steven’s Lion”). But at the same time, like in real life when we think we’re above certain prejudices, prejudice still manages to slip our lips, sometimes.



I wonder if Amethyst’s kind is any different from Pearl and Garnet’s kind other than just the way they are ‘born.’

