Noah thinks it was a joke. Why are you reading into this like he had some huge malicious intent in mind ?
Kind of tired of seeing people just bash his character based on their own subjective bullshit in mind.

I feel like most of the posters here are projecting way to much of their own shit onto these characters.
This isn't some pulpy soap you can judge from the surface even though they have to have the same plot and themes as soaps do.
All of the characters are written as contradictions like in real life.Sometimes they are…

Geesus, do you ever stop making bullshit criticisms ? Learn to divide your own crap you reflect onto these characters and what the scene and/or characters are actually about.

Oh man, this comment.

You don't know if it was based on sexist tropes as much as others don't know if it was a deliberate choice.
All that is was, was sudden.