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Am I the only one who noticed this show is a complete sausage fest?


I guess I shouldn't be surprised that just like in comic books, women are severely underrepresented in this television show. I watched two seasons of this show on Netflix. Each episode features three stories, which adds up to a hell of a lot of people over a couple seasons.

Episode after episode I started to notice there were no women. The first episode, I figured that it just happened to be all men. But then the next one was all men. And the next one. And the next one. After a dozen men, I still hadn't witnessed a woman being spotlighted on the show. But I kept watching and finally got to see two. In the whole damn world they only were able to find two women.

From what I remember, one girl could climb really well and the other lady was able to yell loudly. My male roommates made sexist jokes about the one who was able to yell loudly ("Can't all women do that? Hahaha, that's not super human!"). And there had already been stories featured on people with unique climbing abilities by the time the other female story appeared, which made it more redundant than anything.

Meanwhile you see men with a wide variety of incredible mental and physical abilities episode after episode. Men can do anything, women can do two things. Got it, thanks for the slap in the face Stan Lee. Imagine if the show featured only women (with two dudes stories scattered in there), Stan Lee fans would be like 'The *beep* is this?' and that *beep* would never fly.

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