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No. 28549
Ok, MS is out in not-shitty form. Time to read... Alright, I think I get it. Fist off, the Sanji part was obviously there to have his chivalry contrast to Zoro's bushido, and show that Zoro doesn't really have any chivalry himself. Really. I don't think the fight would have changed in any way if Monet was a guy. Whoever mentioned Hyouzou was spot on, and in fact if you take out Tashigi's mostly pointless interlude the entire exchange would have gone exactly the same: Zoro somehow ends up fighting some uppity scrub that he doesn't really care about, Zoro disables the scrub and tells them to piss off, and eventually the scrub tries to go after Zoro again, at which point Zoro takes them down. In this situation, Zoro's goal is to stop Monet from going after the others. He can accomplish this by taking her down, which he doesn't really want to do because she's a wuss, or by faffing around until enough time passes. Easy. So, someone shows up to duel with her a bit during that time? Doesn't matter, when she loses he just moves on to the "cut his swords and call him a frog" step. The fact that Tashigi stole the last step isn't important, and I don't doubt Zoro when he says that he would have done it anyway.
Now, what I don't understand is what was the point of all that. Is it to show that Zoro's not sexist? Huh? Why spend an entire chapter on that? Is it just a battle chapter and the whole point was to show some neat fighting and moves, and to have Monet be defeated? Well, that's fair, if a little weak. Is it to have Tashigi stop being so willfully ignorant and maybe motivate her to not be worthless, eventually? I think we can all agree this would be the best case scenario, but I don't really buy it. As far as first steps go this one is pretty alright. It's just that, Tashigi has gotten scenes like this before and she always gets to where she is now i.e. too useless to help but too useful to die. The whole thing is weird.
TLDR Zoro has Tashigi issues and weak opponent issues, but not lady issues. Tashigi has usefulness issues and she might try to change them after this, but will probably fail.
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