Not to be the guy that takes iasip deadly seriously sometimes but I think Dee Reynolds of iasip fame is genuinely the perfect execution of the thesis that being a woman and engaging in misogyny will not actually make you equal to men, nor will it make men see you as their equal. There's so many iasip episodes where Dee assumes that the guys will have her back because she's partaking in their shitty behaviour with them, only for the guys to hang her out to dry almost every time. There's a recent episode where Frank is in a coma, and they all claim that they're gonna sit by his bedside until he dies, but the guys end up agreeing to leave Dee to do it alone while they go rustling up investment opportunities for Frank's money. This was never gonna happen any other way. Of course they were going to do that because they're assholes, but also because Dee is a woman and bedside sitting is often gendered towards women because nursing is gendered as feminine. Dee, famously, is not nurturing in any way, exemplified by the actual nurse who's there monitoring Frank who is actually nurturing. But none of that matters because Dee is a woman and this is what women are expected to do under patriarchy so the guys abandon her to do it. I won't spoil the episode, though it's a doozy and if you're familiar with iasip you probably (like I could when I watched) could see what was gonna happen from the start. Like in most episodes, these incredibly bigoted and cruel beliefs each of the gang have is ultimately what stops them succeeding or growing in any way, including Dee. But Dee Reynolds is truly such a brilliant character because I think we all know a woman like Dee who is an asshole and is misogynistic and they ultimately trap themselves forever in a social hellscape of their own making where no woman will ever wanna be friends with them really so they just hang out with dudes who don't really respect them and as a result they're incredibly lonely and bitter. She's basically the best critique ever of the guy's girl or pick me or whatever you want to call it where women who uphold, enable and even partake in misogyny will never be rewarded for it because misogyny and patriarchy is not built to reward women and it never will. Men will never actually reward women with power for stooping to their lowly heights and no character embodies this more than Dee Reynolds and she's my forever woman for that
