well behaved women

Guys, Max spent ten years on the run, completely alone, constantly fighting life-or-death battles, constantly undercover, becoming an extremely competent cat burglar to provide for herself and defeating highly trained operatives at every turn to keep herself free.

Alec spends the same amount of time safely locked away, being brainwashed and doing drills.

What factor of this--besides misogyny--can even remotely be interpreted to mean 'oh yeah, he is totally and obviously so much better than her!' You know, besides one throwaway comment from a biased source whose ass Max kicks in a later episode.


To think that, after spending a great deal of time immersed in this fandom, I managed to emerge largely intact as a feminist before I even knew what a feminist was. I must have been raised right.

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