First off, let me say that I love the show. It does a great job at dispelling a lot of myths and is usually pretty fair.

Also, I did like the effort in this episode. They had one issue for men, and one issue for women. So someone knew what they were doing and I appreciate that.

So they talked about why circumcision was useless and didn't really help anybody, but then left it at that. Personally, I think this is still great. Simply telling people with empirical data that circumcision helps no one and was only practiced (in the US) to stop masturbation is a great way to raise awareness and hopefully enact change.

So then they talked about hymens. I don't really really have the best experience with this since I was home-schooled. I never had a formal sex education class, so most of my education on the topic came from the internet, and I wasn't surprised by very much in the segment. They dispelled the myth that sex hurts for the first time for women, and the myth that it it covers the vaginal opening. I had never thought this, but I know a lot of people do, so it's great to get the word out. What I did learn is that women can be sexually active and have completely intact hymens. According to a study cited in the episode, some 50% of sexually active women still had it intact. So that's good to know.

Where's the problem? Well there hasn't been so far. Here's the problem. The way they handled the women's issue was so much different. First, they had a woman who is commonly being the one educated be the "ruiner" instead of Adam. Meh, this isn't really that big a deal I guess, but Adam has spoken for black people before and he's not black so I don't see why he can't speak for women. In fact he did it on the previous episode! So why the special change? But like I said, not that big a deal. At one point, Emily (the girl who was talking) mentioned "hymens: misunderstood by men!" From the episode it's clear that a lot of women misunderstand it too. Why do we have to act like that? And a lot of women misunderstand circumcision, but it's not worth bringing up.

Also, Emily brought in "other countries" and talked about how women were oppressed on the basis of their hymen. That's where I lost it. Her face was twisted into a snarl and the show got super serious, as if she personally suffered from these injustices. If that's the road we're taking, why didn't they mention the fact that boys die due to botched circumcisions in "other countries"? The show it about dispelling cultural myths. Not this. That was absolutely stupid and just panders to the "women are so oppressed" narrative.

Finally, when asked to bring in an expert (like Adam is normally expected to and did for circumcision) she named herself as an expert simply because she's a woman. The episode made it clear that men and women both misunderstand and embrace myths about the hymen. Therefore, why should I believe that someone is an expert just because they're a woman. It's nonsensical.

So the taste left in my mouth was "Women's issues are horrible! We must stop them because it's hurting women in other countries and in the US to a lesser extent! Men also have some issues and yeah, it's stupid, but not that big a deal." The gravity with which they handled each issue was entirely different. The men's was as it should be, the show is lighthearted. They made a special exception for women which I think is entirely stupid.