I point out to my sons all the commercials lately where the woman is made to look like a genius and she intentionally makes the man look like a goat. I don’t want my kids to take their cues from that. When done seldom and delivered evenly to both genders, it can be humorous, but I don’t find it funny anymore because I see an agenda.
There is a reason “Denise Richards” was cast as a “nuclear physicist” in one of James Bond movie series.:-)
It has been an agenda for a long time. It seems getting worse. With more spite. It has a life of its own, self-perpetuating. Nobody seems to put a brake or even slow it down.