… done enough to deserve jail, maybe, but what’s with the padded cell? This explicit reduction of Niki’s “superpower” to actual insanity is not only emasculating (what a word I’m forced to use!) but also disturbing in its connotations. For two thousand years wombs were regarded as the seat of illogic and insanity, leaving us to deal with the remnants of those misogynistic suppositions even to this day via words like hysteria, hysterical, hysterectomy. And what can I say about Claire Bennet? She’s just the Damsel in Distress – remember “Save the cheerleader, save the world”?
Nandini feels that Heroes is blatantly sexist.
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