User blog comment:Kaido King of the Beasts/Chapter 902: I Don't Wano More Cake/@comment-2600:8807:C00:AD40:F174:C5F5:8EAA:8DEA-20180420135806/@comment-30127592-20180420180109

I'd actually say Rebecca was a case where Oda managed to make his "treatment of women" work in his favor: Giving her a fighting style focused on evasion and exploitation of attacks made certain she was both a capable fighter and mostly out of harm's way.

I still find it hard to forgive Oda for how useless she was post-Colosseum though, he could have at least given her a proper fight against Diamante.

As for Smoothie: i hope Oda plans to use her in the inevitable final confrontation with the Big Mom pirates, but i wouldn't bet on it. Which is a shame, since both she and her longleg sisters seem like they'd make interesting opponents.