Despite not being a female character, blue (among us show) is actually a fairly good representation of someone who experiences misogyny, specifically the fetishization of women, peoples tendency to ignore women's achievements, and the common result of the patriarchy making women inclined to try extremely hard (often to their own detriment) to help others.
I dont want to cut it off mid-explination but parts of this explination include spoilers, so the entire explination is below.
The crewmates are genderless, so it doesnt really apply in the exact same way, but consider:
Blue is considered exceptionally attractive. Almost every time they are on screen, someone mentions that they find them hot.
2. The only characteristic that people actually appreciate about blue is their ability to do well working with others, which is ALWAYS mentioned alongside their attractiveness.
3. Whether or not blue is alright with the consistant fixation on them being attractive is not considered by a single character. Nobody asks how they feel about this. Even the few interactions that have someone treating them like a person, nobody is shown considering blue's perspective.
4. Blue doesnt react a single BIT to the way they are treated. Not once to they say a word. It's clear theyd have definitely heard people many times, yet they do not react. Ever. They dont say a word. Very clearly ignoring it and focusing on their efforts to help.
5. They work a job thats specifically assisting others. Their skills at their job are pretty much never acknowledged. Theyre the "hot doctor", not the "skilled doctor". Their care for others that extends to the career that they chose is even brushed off with humor in a scene: "wouldnt it technically be easier since youre only lifting half of them?". No one else says a word.
6. After they died, people STILL focused on their attractiveness. It was much less of a concious descision due to the lack of oxygen, but their attractiveness was mentioned BEFORE the fact they were DEAD. The crew focused on the fact they were HOT before the fact they were DEAD.
All of these things seeming like direct parallels to how women (especially women with jobs like theirs) are treated in society:
Women who are considered attractive have said attractiveness be heavily focused on
Women's skills are practically never focused on by people, only their attractiveness
Women's oppinions on how often others express finding them attractive is always brushed off
With how often women's feelings are disregarded, a lot of them take to just not acknowledging it when it happens.
When women work in fields like the medical field, its often found that patients dont consider them skilled, yet some of them dont care because of how they find that woman attractive.
Women's attractiveness always comes before their humanity. People will look at a corpse and claim "we lost a baddie".
So basically blue experiences the crewmate equivelant of misogyny even tho their species is plantae and doesnt have individual genders
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