Oda is just being consistent with Sanji's nature and character. He will NEVER hit a woman.
Honestly? This makes me respect Oda and Sanji more.
This chapter also subtly showed Sanji's character development post-time skip.
In WCI, Sanji chose to take all the burden by himself and didn't ask for help. Then why did he even have a crewmate at all?
Now, being aware of his weakness against women, he's not ashamed to ask for Robin's help. Respect.
Because even my man, Zoro, also had to put away his pride, to learn from the one he wants to surpass, Mihawk, so he could be a better fighter.
Bruh, he even
KNEELED in front of Mihawk. That's only time we ever saw him do that.
And prior to that, he even got his ass beat by...monkeys.
Some Zoro fans pretend to forget about these shameful moments and just focus on shitting on Sanji.
But soon enough, Sanji will kick some ass (hopefully using his raid suit because it's awesome), and I'm looking forward to it.
I am a Zoro fan, but I'm an SH fan first and foremost. I want everyone in SH to do well and kick ass.