I finally finished Mayans MC (spin-off of Sons of Anarchy) and in the second to last episode the main character has an accident and Jax Teller’s ex is the one to give him a ride to get help. In the car she says that men have it so easy because they can beat their chests and act like kids well into adulthood but women are the ones who really have it rough. Of course the main character offered no pushback. But hey I’m sure all the construction workers, miners, sewer workers, military, police, first responders, firefighters, farmers, etc. can rest easy knowing they have it easy.
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Yeah, I didn't watch it regularly but it was something I'd catch occasionally and I like low-budget sci-fi.
The race stuff has mostly been a non-issue; in fact, the few episodes that feature non-white people haven't played up race at all, except for the standard "diversity writing" where you know who will be the sympathetic/correct characters just by the color of their skin. In fact, one of the reasons I kept watching the commune episode was because there was an interracial lesbian relationship that looked like it was headed in the direction of the black chick being overly possessive and the antagonist of the episode. Instead I'm pretty sure she was one of the ones that ended up dying due to The Bad Man's ineptitude.
Ok now I’m starting to remember that episode. Turns out the lady had been in a relationship with that guy or something? I remember there was some sort of twist with the founder of the commune
Good memory, yeah. The old "men only destroy" woman had been the girlfriend of the frozen guy 40 years earlier, even still carrying a locket with his picture.
Which just made me think, "wow, how awful was she that he'd have been willing to ditch her for an experimental cryogenic freezing process?" I'm pretty sure that's not what the authors expected me to take away from the story though.