Just an MVP with too many feels

At first I was willing to suspend my disbelief. Sure, maybe secondary genders are just one of those things that exist but are relatively rare and not something people really talk about.

And then the show proceeded to reveal:

there are entire medical specialties devoted to it.

testing centers are everywhere.

young children discuss it in public with the confidence of epidemiologists.

random kids will literally stop strangers to ask omegaverse questions.

everyone wants to know everyone else's secondary gender.

it's a major social justice issue.

knowing your secondary gender is crucial for your health, safety, and basically your entire life plan.

Yet somehow Phatsa has apparently gone his entire life without ever seeing a brochure. Or a clinic. Or a public safety warning. Or hearing a classmate mention heats. Or taking a biology class. Or seeing someone call in because of a rut. Or watching an adult rearrange their schedule around something that, by the show's own rules, would affect a huge portion of the population on a regular basis.

We're way past "he's sheltered." At this point it feels statistically impossible for him not to know. I genuinely cannot come up with a scenario where every six-year-old in this country is casually discussing secondary genders on the playground while this grown, college-educated man has somehow never even heard the word "alpha."