The amazing thing about Pearl is that she’s flawed, just like Amethyst, just like Garnet, just like Steven, just like Rose. They’re all flawed. I adore Pearl but she does treat Greg unfairly.

Rose didn’t treat Pearl with honesty and respect, and I do hold her accountable for leading Pearl on for five thousand years. And I can understand why Pearl would be bitter at being the second choice. But she acts downright childish when Rose falls in love with Greg. It’s not Greg’s fault that Rose chose him. He didn’t know anything about Pearl’s feelings for Rose in the beginning. He’s not a homewrecker. It wasn’t his fault. If she should be upset with anyone, she should be upset with Rose for treating her so poorly, for intentionally stringing her along but never committing. But she isn’t upset with Rose, because she has an inferiority complex that blinds her to the reality that she deserved to be treated better.

We are witnessing Pearl right now in the process of tearing down years of internalized self hatred and trying to learn, bit by bit, that she is strong on her own, that she is her own gem, and that she deserves to be respected.

At the end of the day, Rose treated Pearl unfairly, and then Pearl treated Greg unfairly. And it’s just so goddamn backwards that you’re talking smack about Greg because he’s actually the only one who didn’t do anything wrong.

You’re so blinded by identity politics and rabid hatred of men that you’ll never see it the way it was meant to be seen. And that is a real shame, because the message is a good one.