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by dagmx 1307 days ago
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.

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> 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.

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.

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