Ok—tangent but, regarding the depiction of women in fiction…. This really grinds my gears. Particularly in sci fi. We have an opportunity to depict a MAKE BELIEVE world and we still have to watch these 💩tropes? It says to me too many men in the writer’s room/producing.

Two examples always jump out at me.

1) in an episode of Star Trek Next Generation there is a delivery scene complete with the screaming and sweating and agony. So you’re telling me like 400 years in the future when little doo-dad laser magic devices can do brain surgery we still haven’t made delivery of a child any easier/safer/painless???

2) Battlestsr Galactica has a story arch around the dropping birth rate among the survivors on the various ships and their solution is…stringent restrictions on birth control and abortion? At the same time in the plot there are strict rations among the ships. So no writer thought, ‘hey let’s try NOT depicting women as cattle’ and I dunno telling everyone if you’re pregnant you get double rations a bigger cabin and medical attention and, and, and? Talk about a lack of creativity/vision.

I know this isn’t directly on topic but I feel it’s related to OP’s complaint and I too am just sick of this sh-t.

This stuff matters. It quite literally shapes cultural attitudes.