probably the dumbest way transphobes try to claim trans women aren’t real women is when they say it’s ‘because they can’t have babies’ and that kind of shit. cause in that case they don’t get to say girls, infertile women or post-menopausal women are either

Also to me a very clear line going from Tom getting shiv pregnant and her losing any and all perceived value in front of Mattsons eyes since she's now very clearly and inescapably a woman which she tries to basically not deny really but def "make up for" by assuring him that motherhood means nothing to her and that she's willing to leave the child with nannies and never see them to keep working (which like obviously conflating motherhood and womanhood is not ideal but it is what I see being the line of reasoning)

i think matsson's misogyny is a little more interesting than this though. like, before he knew she was pregnant, it's not like he was seeing her as anything other than a woman. his treatment of ebba should make his general misogyny clear. what he's reacting to at the end is specifically the fact that being pregnant means shiv literally got fucked, which fits in with how the whole show has used the language of fucking to mean dominating, killing, succeeding at the company. like, your ability to cum in someone is an articulation of power. think of how tom came in tabitha's mouth, but then she reverted the action by snowballing him. or connor's "usury and onanism" line, where cum and money are rhetorically equated, and he demands that both be used 'productively' (creating children, enforcing certain economic forms that ofc rely on the construction of the greedy 'usurer').

when matsson tells tom it's him, one thing he specifically says is that he'd rather go for the man who put a baby in her than "the baby lady" herself---again, the act of impregnation is to matsson an indication of tom's value. this is also why logan so derogatorily asked tom if he was "shooting blanks", why kendall is so enraged when roman brings up his infertility explicitly, why tom said that having sex with shiv if she was on birth control was like "throwing so much cake batter at a brick wall". like, at points in the show, shiv is capable of 'fucking' people in a way her brothers are not. she has an actual killer instinct: she uses it against impotent kendall, eg in the s2 finale and the letter calling him crazy. it's part of what drew matsson to her in the first place, that she's sharp and externally competent in a way roman and kendall simply failed to project.

it's not that matsson forgot she was a woman or something, it's that in these people's minds, power is restricted even more narrowly than that, and ejaculation/impregnation are bodily signifiers of power if you're the one doing them, but bodily humiliations if they're done to you. this is also why logan's verbal humiliations of roman and kendall had three major components: the feminisation, the accusations of general faggotry, and then specifically the idea that they were 'getting fucked'. matsson is essentially replicating this same rhetorical slippage with shiv: tom came in her, which reduces her in matsson's eyes. she tried to prove that despite literally getting fucked, she hadn't metaphorically gotten fucked (the promise to leave the kid with nannies) but ultimately matsson valued the person who demonstrated his ability to ejaculate, fuck someone, and cause life to be created over the person on the receiving end of that act.