To be fair, Gutsy, a new Apple TV original series starring Hillary and Chelsea Clinton, is not as horrible as I expected. Given Hillary Clinton’s awful decades-long record as a conservative force within the already-moribund Democratic Party, I expected that watching her talk to allegedly “gutsy” women for hours on end would be unmitigated torture.

And let’s be clear: some of it is.

First, let’s talk about the gruesome framing. Gutsy? The word, I would argue, is infantilizing and cutesy, even a bit sexist in its hyperfeminization of its subjects. It could be an okay, perhaps even endearing, adjective to describe a little girl defying a schoolyard bully, but falls so awkwardly short of honoring the impressive women featured: scholars, writers, activists, performers, supermodels, all of whom deserve better.