One Unrealistic Thing in Young Sheldon That Ruins Everything

Young Sheldon is set in Texas in the late 1980s and early 1990s, but it looks a lot more modern than that. For starters, Sheldon attends a university where the president is a woman.

It's great to see a strong woman in charge (even if she is a bit of a jerk), but it just feels forced for one of the more conservative states, especially in the 20th century.

East Texas Tech seems much more progressive than the rest of the country overall for the time being. There are quite a few female students in STEM, and the faculty is pretty diverse.

Sheldon's philosophy professor, Dora Ericson, is a woman, and another female professor, Dr. Carol Lee, is put in charge of a major project.

Dr. Lee is also not the only POC on the faculty, which again is pretty strange for the 1990s. Sure, you could argue that it wasn't that long ago, and diversity in STEM wasn't that unheard of.

Even if that is true, Young Sheldon is still one thing away from giving us an accurate representation on screen.

Let's say East Texas Tech could have been so "liberal" at the time. All those women and POC in STEM surely faced their (un)fair share of racism and/or sexism, but we see mere glimpses of it (played for laughs) in the show.

Young Sheldon has done a good job of depicting the religious scrutiny with the kicking-Coopers-out-of-church storyline, and it is pretty realistic how Christianity treats teenage pregnancy out of wedlock.

You can't say the same about the other themes of the '90s.

Paige is a pretty good example of that. Just like Sheldon, she is a child prodigy, but there's a catch – she is a pretty blonde girl.

She may be smarter than Sheldon himself, but there's absolutely no way that she would've had the same (let alone more) opportunities as Sheldon back then.

It would've been great (story-wise) to see Paige struggle not only with her teenage angst, but also with navigating STEM as a young woman.

Season 7, we have high hopes for you!