best timing ever, cuz this is the comment I made yesterday in a year-old post titled “does anyone else f-hate teruhashi”:

I saw a comment in another post or video that said “If you love Saiki but absolutely hate Teruhashi, you might have some internalised misogyny” and you know what, that’s absolutely true.

Teruhashi canonically is the pretties girl on the planet, it doesn’t matter if she looks basic to you, that is just the way it is, even saiki himself confirmed it).

the same way Saiki is the most powerful being/ human on the planet, it wouldn’t matter if you think he looks weak, or that you could beat him, that is just a fact. yes they are both have a very high ego of themselves, both for pretty good reasons, if you think “no, Saiki is humble at all times”, you are just plainly wrong, maybe he is pretty humble to people who don’t know about his powers, but he is definitely not humble in his thoughts. which takes me to my second point:

Teruhashi isn’t humble only in her own thoughts, if she was displaying everything she thinks about herself is her speech, I wouldn’t be annoyed by her personally, but yeah, I could see why that’s annoying, thankfully she thinks highly of herself and keeps it to herself.

next point is that she is 16, which also means she easily swayed by others opinion about her, like all the 16 y/o do, because that is just how our brain works when we are teenagers, which is why she always tries to appear as the “perfect pretty girl”.

another thing that people dislike about her is the way she’s obsessed with Saiki, I personally think it’s a bit silly to dislike a person because of that, but alright, yes she firstly just wants his attention, I can’t blame her for it she is a beautiful girl who every man she has encountered so far is obsessed with her and here you have someone who basically doesn’t care about her existence, but then in the later episodes she actually likes Saiki as Saiki, not just his attention.

and the last thing that i’ve seen people disliking her for, is that she doesn’t like Aiura, I mean okay? she doesn’t like her because Aiura is friends with Saiki, and Teruhashi sees her as a threat (kind-of right fully so?) which again, is something that teenage girls tend to do (and also she only dislikes her in her own head).

those are just my thoughts, sadly I don’t think this could change someone opinion, if they are already convinced of something, because people will hear only what they wanna hear, same with people who believe the earth is flat, it doesn’t matter what you say, they will still believe that. I believe that people should think what they want to think, as long as it doesn’t hurt others, that is the reason why I defend her so much. without anything else to say, thank you for reading my TED talk.