But these are children’s games physical strength is not an advantage. Men are, traditionally, physically stronger than women, that’s true. Related: Daenerys Targaryen Makes It Hard To Care About House Of The DragonThis is a life or death game where one wrong choice means a bullet in the head - there’s no time for political correctness.

The unflinching desire to bring men and only men aboard their teams makes the Squid Game players look like triple-A studio executives, with women being discarded as a possibility almost instantly.

Immediately, everyone has the same idea - we need men. Squid Game is a fantastic show, one of 2021’s best, but the ways it treats women are very odd.Īt one point in the show, the characters are ordered to get into teams. However, both also seem to harbour a deep resentment towards women, whether that’s in their loyalty to gender roles, their unflattering depiction of supporting female characters, the violence they exact upon women (which goes beyond that which is exacted upon men), or the ways they are deemed unnecessary to the wider story, even as they drive the plot. Both have women as their best characters, be they Kang Sae-byeok, Judy Alvarez, or Panam Palmer.

In a strange way, Squid Game reminds me of Cyberpunk 2077.

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