I recently finished watching the first season of The Pitt. The show follows the lives of a team of ER doctors in Philadelphia, and the entire 15-episode season takes place over one shift.

There was a scene in the last episode that bothered me. There are spoilers below, so beware if you still want to watch it.

In an early episode, a mother comes into the ER with her 18-year-old son, David. David had written some alarming things about girls in his journal, and his mother assumed it was a hit list of girls he wanted to kill. David had been bullied a lot at school, and his father had recently left. When he was confronted over his journal, he fled the hospital.

In a later episode, it was found that there was an active shooter at a festival. Everyone feared the worst, that it was him, but it wasn't.

When he later went back to the hospital to pick up his mother, he was handcuffed and roughed up by police, and then thrown onto a 72-hour psychiatric hold. This was despite the fact that he had done nothing illegal.

So, that's all fine and good. I understood why people would be alarmed at what they found, and the kid truly needed help. However, I couldn't help but facepalm at the way one of the female doctors, Dr. McKay, handled it.

She went into his room and asked his mother to leave. Then, she gave him a spiel that went something like this:

Have you ever been in a room with someone you were truly afraid of? Now imagine that's half the people you meet. Being a woman in a world with men is terrifying.

Essentially, she laid into him about how he was a danger to society, how women are rightfully afraid of all men, and how his feelings didn't matter because he made women uncomfortable.

To me, this just showed how tonedeaf feminist writers are. We had a young man, who was clearly troubled and being pushed in a bad direction, and the solution was to have a grown woman tell him what? That his gender made him automatically unwelcome? That women were right to hate him by default?

And the greatest irony of the scene was that particular female doctor was wearing a court-ordered ankle bracelet due to an assault charge and a restraining order. She was an actual honest-to-God violent criminal, and she decided she was righteous in going on a verbal tirade against a young man who wrote some names in his journal.

It's almost as if the writers intended for it to be that way. "See this violent criminal lady? You're worse, boys."