The Big Bang Theory universe’s problem with showing women in a right way has always been much bigger than we thought.
The Big Bang Theory and its prequel Young Sheldon may have been a pure joy for its fans during all those years that both shows spent on TV, but there’s at least one repetitive mistake that they just can’t be forgiven for.
Having brought its lead male characters to the main stage and constantly highlighting their personal and professional success, the original show has always been pretty abusive towards Penny who, despite being in there ever since the first season’s episode 1, eventually never got the storyline she deserved.
Though many fans have been pointing this out in social media for years, Young Sheldon’s creators seem to have completely ignored the backlash as they did almost the same thing to the prequel’s female character as well.
Though Sheldon’s twin sister Missy has always been considered a saucy child and then a troublesome teenager, she surely deserved a better closure for her story in Young Sheldon’s finale and later on in The Big Bang Theory.
Throughout its run of seven seasons, the prequel made it clear that, though Missy wasn’t as intelligent as Sheldon, she was still capable of succeeding in life thanks to her shrewdness and ability to come up with solutions that few people could ever think about.
Despite that, Missy was the one to end up in the worst position in Young Sheldon’s finale when she was left all alone with her mother, while Sheldon was already on his way to becoming a Nobel Prize winner, and Georgie was getting his own spinoff that would arrive sometime later this year.
However, Young Sheldon’s attitude towards Missy isn’t that bad compared to how The Big Bang Theory treated the character before. In the original show, Missy appears to be Sheldon’s complete opposite being a promiscuous woman with no significant achievements under her belt.
By the end of the original show, it’s clear that Missy had no happiness in both personal life and career as she ends up working as a waitress and having lots of kids with a husband who she later on separates from while being pregnant with another child.
Unlike Penny, who was also treated unfairly all along but was still given a chance to leave her past as a waitress behind and start a successful career as a sales rep, Missy seemingly had no such luck as she never even got a chance to get out of Texas to seek more opportunities.
