Talk:Gem Hunt/@comment-4742018-20160802012049/@comment-5955640-20160802025955

Connie and Steven behave based on the way they were raised and how they individually handle situations.

Connie's parents are very firm and practical people and they raise Connie to be as sensible and as focused as possible. As a result she doesn't spend a lot of time having fun because they were always moving and she didn't play as much with other people. She would often spend her time reading books where characters would go on adventures just to live vicariously through them. (and reading adventure, fantasy, or any combination of those two is not exclusive reading to boys in fact I would say it's main driving demographic when concerning books is in fact young women).

She always considered Steven's adventures to be as interesting as the books she's read so when she got a chance to be apart of the action she used the seriousness and thoughtfulness her parents gave her to apply to more mundane things to realize her personal fantasies of being a heroine.

It has nothing to do with gender norms because everything about the way she was raised to the way she lives her life is gender neutral and is based on character motivation and not gender motivation.

This exact story takes place with boys and it has the same result and it never had anything to do with gender in those situations either.

Steven's character is also explained without making it gendered. Steven's dad is a pacifist and a slacker. As a result when Steven was interested in possibly learning combat Steven the Sword Fighter happened. Steven's a lot of things but discplined isn't one of them (and to be honest if he took orders from the gems like Connie takes orders from her parents they probably wouldn't be alive right now). Despite Rose being a powerful fighter she was also massively compassionate and empathetic. Half of her is part of Steven which could include that simply as a behavioral hereditary trait.

He wears pink because he likes pink (and that it goes well with him being half rose quartz) which is only a feminine color on a modern marketing sense. In history men wore a lot of pink (and it was even common for boys to wear dresses). I could spend a lot of time talking about colors and how it started going through the wringer but the case must be made.

Clothing for both genders really only matter if you obsess over fashion and fashion is a racket and i'm not talking about the sporting equipment.

Connie is interested in the hunt because it's an adventure and the life she's lived has always made her excited to go on an adventure. Steven is worrried because he has been on adventures and knows how dangerous and scary they can be.

When going down the rabbit hole with this show, may I request that you make sure you go down the right one.