The season repeatedly foregrounds workplace sexual harassment (Episode 2's Dirk the rooster subplot and HR failure), Bertie's conflicted attraction to mentor Pastry Pete's boundary violations, and the revelation of her childhood sexual assault by a male lifeguard at summer camp (Episode 9's "The Jelly Lakes," featuring an all-female supporting cast). Episode 10 explicitly frames the protagonists' bakery venture as "fighting the pastry-archy," a direct pun on patriarchy that pits female entrepreneurship against a male chef's sabotage. Creator Lisa Hanawalt has stated her intent to depict "what it feels like to move through the world as a woman," explore #MeToo dynamics without easy resolutions, and counter male-dominated adult animation with raunchy, flawed female perspectives.