Board Thread:Debate of The Week/@comment-27398195-20190130065115/@comment-26234016-20190131000944

TheOnlyFoxCat wrote: why would they have peachette if peach is already female

also, I personally think the whole creation of toadette is just plain dumb and mean to girls, because 1) shes pink and comes in no other color, 2) Toad was gender neutral to begin with and 3) she has ugly and weird pigtail-braids to represent us females. Alright lemme just go to town here. Originally the Super Crown was only for toadette, and then some twitter artist had a 'what if' moment and spawned the Bowsette hellscape that painted the tailend of 2018. Fun fact, the name that would logically follow would be something along the lines of Peachser or Bowseach because the -ette ending comes from toadette.

Back to the topic.

Toadette was released originally in 2003, as a partner for Toad in Mario Kart Double Dash. Back then, Toad's gender was still unknown and it was assumed that they were male. Nintendo made an official announcement stating that Toad was genderless in 2014, so between 2003-2014, just because of how heteronormative our world is [insert pic of me taking a long drag of a cigarrette] it was probably assumed that up until then only male Toads had been shown onscreen and that the gender dymorphia between the species was that male Toads were red without pigtails and female Toads were pink with pigtails.

Except that isn't the full story. In 2002, Super Mario Sunshine came out with (I believe) the very first appearance of multicolored Toads, Toads that weren't just red, but all sorts of colors, blue, orange, pink, you name it. Then the very next year Toadette is released. Now, considering that the Mario wiki itself misgenders Toad five years after the announcement that toad is genderless, it's a fair bet to assume that people at the time thought the way you did, that toadette just drew the short end of the straw, sort of a Smurfette situation.

Now we get to 2014 and that's all turned on its head. Now that it's announced that Toads as a race are genderless [1], where does that put Toadette? She is still refered to with she/her pronouns, after all.

If Toads as a race are genderless, but Toadette is a girl, the only way that would work is if Toadette is trans. Which also explains why she has certain hyperfemine aspects– although this is dying out as trans people become more accepted, trans people are sort of forced to almost exaggerate traits of the gender they identify as in order to be accepted as that gender, and anything else would be considered faking. Why does she have pigtails, wear a dress, and look pink? Well aside from the fact that some Toads are genetically pink, Toadette is just trying to establish herself as a girl!