Sheridan is constantly mixing in women-worshipping phrases of the "happy wife, happy life" type whenever there's a moment of revelation after one of the men in the show has been over-powered by a woman.
But Sheridan likes to play both sides. He also gives Tommy and some of the geologists opportunities to tell the mega bitch lawyer Rebecca how stupid windmills are for generating electricity and that oil runs the world.
It's like he's tossing various bones to different demographics of his audience, but the lion share is going to feminists and anti-racists.
Yes, I've noticed all these myself. I'm glad you mentioned Cooper. "Simp Of The Year" is an accurate characterization of him. And his girlfriend Ariana (1 of 3 women on the show with attitude) is also abrasive, so scenes involving this couple are also hard to watch.
I can't imagine Sheridan has a lot of viewers from the Left who are fans of the show. So I'm guessing these feminist and anti-racist scenes are merely for propaganda to appease his handlers.
It sucks because one minute it's a great show that takes you deep inside the oil business, and then the next minute you're being made to feel guilty for being a white man or you're being groomed to act like a simp.