[dagmx]

I’m a straight guy and I enjoyed it. So I think your certainty is not so certain.

Also there’s straight guys on there who were just fine. Wong and Matt for example were issue free. So was Bruce and a ton of extras.

A lot of the women on the show weren’t the nicest either, like Titania and the friend whose wedding she went to.

[unsupp0rted]

Wong, the Sorcerer Supreme, was reduced to watching trash tv on a sofa with a vapid drunk club girl, because he’s a sorority girl now.

Matt, i.e. Daredevil, was reduced to carrying his shoes in his hands in a “walk of shame” (his shoes are uncomfortable heels? He feels shame after sex with a fellow lawyer?), because he’s a sorority girl now.

Bruce, who spent two decades learning to control his inner Hulk and multiple times watched friends die in service of a higher calling was upstaged in 5 seconds by a girl who told him what real anger is because she gets catcalled and asked out on dates by people she doesn’t find attractive.

Whatever boys are supposed to get from this show, they’re probably not getting it. Or perhaps boys are getting exactly what the writers want them to get.

[dagmx]

Wong made a friend. He’s also been the butt of jokes in every male protagonist marvel film with him in it. This is the most I’ve enjoyed his character in a while.

Matt had a good time and then they made a casual joke that you’re reading far too much into.

Regarding Bruce, they had to short circuit her origin story. Nobody wants to see her go through the exact same motions.

Regardless, it seems the show was not your cup of tea. That’s fine.

There’s plenty of straight men out there who enjoyed it, and we have enough shows pandering to our male egos that having one fun show focused on a woman isn’t going to upset my balance of whatever it is you think one must get from a show.

[unsupp0rted]

> we have enough shows pandering to our male egos that having one fun show focused on a woman isn’t going to upset my balance

That's disingenuous. I reject this show for the same reason women reject a show that fails the Bechdel test. It's full of caricatures of men that exist only to confirm the protagonist's (i.e. head writer's) view that men are either toxic leering creeps, oblivious privileged mansplainers or idiotic adult children.

[dagmx]

Except there were men who weren’t shown as weak or toxic. And there were equally women who were shown as bad in this show as well.

Shockingly the men who played the villains weren’t portrayed as good people. So were the women who were the villains.

[scarface74]

You mean a comedy is full of caricatures? Who would have thought?