it would like.... it could have been redeemable, maybe, if tashigi had been like, there to put the lie to those words. prove she could be just as cool and badass as zoro
arm length is in fact a very, very important thing in sword fighting. the sword fighter with the longer reach has a very real and very large advantage.
On this third hand that Robin has sprouted up, anything you can say about How Women Are Naturally has to square up with Charlotte Linlin who isn't even like that because of a devil fruit like she does have one but it has nothing to do with being able to suplex a giant
THAT is the bioessentialism that should have happened here. it's not gender, kuina just can't beat zoro because zoro's arms are long enough to touch the ground. what are you gonna do about THAT kuina.
Anyway my Kuina Lives AU is one where Zoro dies and she ends up growing her hair out so she can braid it around two sword hilts in order to pay respect to her rivals style
She appears in a non canonical movie where the straw hats go into some sort of alternate universe and she and Zoro are fighting happily for the entire time nonstop
fun fact: Bogard was identified by name in the subtitles which is how I know who he is, whereas Helmeppo was identified only as "cadet" despite his much bigger role
Zoro: "No, I'll get stronger than you one day because I'm super incredible"
it's not gender, kuina just can't beat zoro because zoro's arms are long enough to touch the ground. what are you gonna do about THAT kuina.
"Nope!"
"Alright good talk!"
"Because you're my friend, you idiot!"
"You said it yourself. You don't have any friends."
oh we're DOING thisZoro went on to lose eight timesis the la noire dude significant or