Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-173.34.50.163-20170531080057/@comment-69.250.211.213-20170602020909

Yes. Because fantasy and sci fi are always so realistic?

Particularly with Skaikru, you would have had the best and the brightest living on space stations at the time of the bombs. men AND women. Those strong, bright and logical humans would have passed that on to the next generations. Or what? Were all those women up there just cooking and cleaning? Pretty sure those women would have had to be top scientists, researchers, and engineers and had to be physically fit to have been up there.

And for the grounders, well, again, they were the ones who managed to survive a freaking nuclear apolcalypse. My guess would be those remaining, both men AND women, would have had to be the strongest and the smartest in order to survive.

If the show was the other way around, it would be how every other show out there already is: men depicted in every single leadership/warrior role with the occasional female side kick who gets a few good lines.

I don't get your issue with this show. Both men and women have been depcited as bad guys, as leaders, as warriors, as tech/engineer geeks, as "losers" (I guess you mean get killed off?), as courageous, as selfish, etc.... It's almost like they want to show that each of us as humans has our own strengths and weaknesses, moments of greatness and moments of weakness, instances of brilliant logic and times of emotional generosity.

And if that seems like too far of stretch for you to imagine a world in which women are able to equally participate, compete, and contribute, don't worry. This is only fiction after all.