Firefly gets fuckier when you realize it's influenced by that period of 70s-80s sci-fi where there were weird second wave...
Firefly gets fuckier when you realize it’s influenced by that period of 70s-80s sci-fi where there were weird second wave feminist vibes of women’s religious societies as a model like the Bene Gesserit, and so the Companions aren’t just unionized whores, they’re something like Sex Nuns