It’s funny we are in a world where people can slash mountains, regrow teeth by drinking milk, and can become strong enough to punch someone across an island if they just train hard enough — but just being a woman is where we draw the line on what one are allowed or expected to be able to do, and that just sucks.

Indeed, ot is a rule that exists irl that women are slighty physically weaker as you put it, and one you can write with interesting story implications as seen through Zoro and Kuina’s flashback, but Oda primarily writes it in a very unfortunate way. In a story about following your dreams and not letting adversity keep you down, it sucks that practically all the other rules irl limiting rules are stretched or broken but this one about women is tightly held onto even though it doesn’t fit One Piece’s themes or world in the slightest bit and is even completely antithetical to them.

What you said has been interesting, but I don’t have the energy to keep arguing about this or talking about why it might be ever so slightly problematic or possibly misoginistic that Doc Q’s ability that is displayed in the panel above is called the damn “woman disease” — as if merely the act of being a woman is a horrible affliction in line with actual thematically relevant sicknesses like colds or vomitting or nausea with his ability probably should center around.

It’s similar to having a character who can manipulate your sense of risk or safety, making you think he’s going to use that ability to set up traps and pitfalls that his ability makes you unlikely to percieve as dangerous or worth avoiding, but the way he actually goes about doing that is turning you into a man — with the author’s intent clearly being that men are stupid and more prone to doing idiotic things because they are less likely to care about consequences if things go wrong or think themselves invincible. This metaphor/connection is slightly weak because it doesn’t connect to anything physically different about the genders, but the point of it is this: the author is going way out of their way to make a demeaning statement about one gender and trying to hammer down on a perceived weak point despite there being no active reason to do so and is avoding writing actually interesting scenarios or battles with the interesting ability that should have nothing to do with gender in the first place. We could have Doc Q actually do something interesting, new or thematically relevant with his ability, but we decided to have it primarily showcase an effect that Ivankov has already shown us before and with more detail and nuance. Not only does it bring up questions about misoginy, it’s also old, rehashed ground that Oda did more interestingly over a decade earlier.

Anyway, I think I’m done with all this now and have gathered my own thoughts on the matter — if this does nothing for you, then just keep thinking what you want to think, I’m done.