“We just wanted to normalize it a little bit,” says showrunner Eric Kripke.
Warning: This article contains spoilers fromThe Boysseason 4, episode 4, “Wisdom of the Ages.”
“It’s no one business but yours,” Hughie tells her.

Erin Moriarty’s Starlight on ‘The Boys’ season 4.Prime Video/YouTube
“But another inspiration for us was Cecily Strong.”
“Who’s Cecily?
I’m Goober!”
she says in the sketch.
“It really moved me,” Kripke recalls of watching that sketch.
So we were like, ‘Let’s just throw it out there and deal with it.'"
It’s a thing that thousands and thousands and thousands of women go through," Kripke continues.
“We just wanted to normalize it a little bit.