This is an interesting picture in its depiction of gender and how feminity is signified: pink, skirt, legs together. When really, there’d be nothing wrong with her wearing the same outfit as everyone else (in my opinion, Mr. Yellow could do with a little skirt). Also, I assume that a lot of thinking and planning has gone into this picture, as with all character development and promotional material. So there must be very specific reasons why (most of) the Power Rangers stand the way they do. I’d love to hear why these reasons do not apply to the woman, when everyone else is made the same.
I wonder whether the pink skirted power ranger was added specifically to attract girls as viewers or reflect diversity in some very fucked up way. The assumption, though, that anything feminine comes in pink and cute rather worries me… okay, it disgusts me. Yes, this might come as a big suprise, but no, I do not prefer pink over any other colour. Nor do I wear skirts all the time.
On the other hand, though, nothing forces me to understand this picture the way it was intended. Nothing in the image tells us how the characters in these outfits identify genderwise. Any of them could be woman or man or trans, could be butch or femme or camp or bear or drag or…
