"It's a TV show, its not that deep!!!!"
Yes it is. It is deep because the rampant misogyny and message its sending that "women are too emotional and weak to rule in their own right and must always rely on men" is what its giving. Its giving "women can't have agency and ambition because those are manly traits and unattractive in a woman" its giving "oh shes emotional because she's on her period and thats why women can't rule because they'll nuke the planet while on the rag"
The agency, ambition, and goals of these female characters have been obliterated and turned into perpetual victimhood, which was never, ever a personality trait of theirs in the source material. They were strong, ambitious women who wanted what they wanted because why not? Men said they couldn't? Men should shut their fucking gobs and stop trying to praise their characterisation as "strong women" and "feminism" when their female characters have been reduced to bland, boring two dimensional people who barely move the narrative along and spend their days lamenting they weren't born male, utterly destroying any kind of "feminism."
Feminism isnt hating being a woman and wishing to be a man. Its the belief that men and women are equal; that anything a man can do, so can a woman. Not erasing her womanhood in favour of her desperately wishing she was born a man, or remarking that despite being born in a "weak and feeble" body of a woman, she has the heart and stomach of a king. Women's bodies are strong as fuck, example: pregnancy and childbirth. Women are strong as fuck, and should be allowed to be. They shouldn't have to soften themselves to be palatable. They shouldn't have to rely on men to raise them up.
But this show has failed in so, so many ways and is sending a really fucking bad message to young women all over the world who watch it, and it makes me feel sick to my stomach.
