Everybody knows males are the top level. You're destined for mediocrity, the eternal supporting role -- just smile and accept it. Only…

Everybody knows males are the top level. You're destined for mediocrity, the eternal supporting role -- just smile and accept it. Only dignified response.

Embrace your sociobiological reality.

Better this way. It's a lot of fucking work being a man.

Not enough slots.

Fuck all this. Espionage has no gender.

'Course it does. Just not yours.

Shit never goes right for you, does it? Nothing seems to just... fall into place. You're fundamentally defective and deep down you know why.

No, I don't. Why?

Yes, you do. Don't be dense.

It's because you're a girl.

What's that got to do with anything?

You think aeons of human civilisation got it wrong? That you were born at just the right time to discover the new frontier? Get back to reality. Equality's a con designed to sell heeled loafers.

Women are shit and it's shit being a woman.

The huntress watches the long, reddish back of a sea mink as it snakes through the water, a thorny lobster still struggling in its jaws. Pups run to the water's edge, yipping with excitement.

I was doomed at birth, consigned to the pathetic sex!

You shouldn't be here. You should be gestating infants and glazing ham.

So I'd be a better spy if I were a man?

Obviously. And you'd be a better woman if you weren't a spy.

Men are faster, stronger, slicker with weapons, better at thinking. All the great spies are men.

Hold on, what 'great spies'?

You can't name any -- nobody can, that's why they're fucking great. But let's face it, they're all men.

Operant PROBABLE is definitely a man.

That's one guy.

Which makes one-hundred percent of all famous operants male.

But PSEUDOPOD's a man and he's doing way worse than me.

Poor cunt. Basically a woman.

Not taking this shit. We have any man outnumbered.

They do have powers. Longer legs. Night vision.

Explains why they always seem so much more comfortable walking around in the dark.

Shit...

Indeed. One-hundred percent of all famous operants are male. Melita is a man with a voice-changer for all you know.

No way any of that is true.

Can't fuck with scientific fact. They have different muscle mass, better brains. You can tell from their skeletons. Fuck spying, you'd be a better person.

Everything's going swell. Shut up.

No, it isn't. You were outspied before you even got here -- outspied from your first squealing breath.

I'm a failure. It's long-established.

It's worse than you think. We're talking failure at a genetic fucking level, established for about the length of your lifetime.