If you never watched “Squid Game,” it was a runaway success for Netflix a few years ago. The basic idea was that 456 people with desperate financial problems are invited to a contest at an undisclosed location, where they all participate in a bunch of children’s games like “Red Light, Green Light.” The winner gets $40 million. Then, when they get there, they realize that if they don’t win the games, they get murdered.
The show’s popularity didn’t come down to its plot, or any kind of deeper meaning. There wasn’t much to it. You could spin it as a metaphor against capitalism just as easily as you could spin it as a metaphor against communism. It was basically just well-executed torture porn. You had to enjoy watching these characters fight for their lives in these bizarre, occasionally creative deathtraps — kind of like the “Saw” films, with a little more variety. And apparently a lot of people did get some mileage out of that conceit.
It’s now very obvious, though, that a lot of fans won’t be enjoying “Squid Game” season 2, the obligatory follow-up that will be released the day after Christmas. This is the season that will jump the shark for a lot of people, on all sides of the political spectrum. We know that because Netflix has now revealed the characters for the second “Squid Game.” And one of these characters is a male former special forces soldier who identifies as transgender — and who’s competing in this game to raise money for sex-change surgery.
Before we go any further, it’s important to establish right off the bat that Netflix does, indeed, appear to be serious about this. The creators of this show, and the actor who plays this male character, genuinely seem to believe that this is a brave, intelligent casting decision.
Here’s part of the video where the actor introduces this new character. Obviously, he’s not speaking English, so you only need to see a small portion of it. Watch:
In case you couldn’t keep up with the subtitles, he says that this character is a “former special forces soldier and transgender woman” who joins the Squid Game because, “she’s short on money for her gender-affirming surgery.” This character “faces prejudice and tough situations,” but demonstrates “incredible strength and decisiveness,” and “breaks down stereotypes” on his journey to securing the cash to mutilate his own genitals.
We’ll give this character the benefit of the doubt for a second, and assume that this aspiring transgender character didn’t realize the Squid Game was a death-match when he decided to join. We’ll assume that, like many of the other contestants, he was tricked into participating, because he was so blinded by his desire for this trans surgery after getting out of the special forces — like so many special forces soldiers have been, throughout history.
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But even with that in mind, this is still coming off like some kind of very unsubtle Right-wing parody of trans ideology. Here you have someone who is clearly so reckless, and so consumed by his desire to disfigure his own body, that he somehow inadvertently joins a game where he has a 455 out of 456 chance of dying a horrible, excruciating death. That’s greater than a 99% chance of dropping off a bridge, or being shot by a machine gun, or being impaled or something like that. And he’s facing that fate because he was “short on money” for a sex change, and decided he’d do anything to get it.
That is the premise that would probably be too on-the-nose if you were trying to mock the idea of transgender surgeries, and the trans cult in general. It serves no purpose but to highlight, as dramatically as possible, how deranged these people are — and how willing they are to engage in highly self-destructive acts in order to affirm their delusions.
But apparently, we’re meant to feel sympathy for this character. We’re also supposed to observe that, although he’s willing to do anything to get his genitals cut off, he’s also extremely brave and fearless under fire. He keeps his composure in life-threatening situations. He has “incredible strength.” He’s exceptionally stable, mentally speaking. Presumably that’s the “stereotype” that’s being “broken down” here.
Imagine being in the writers’ room when they decided that this would be one of their prominent characters for their new season. It’s just stock, cliche’d pandering that everyone’s seen a million times by now. And incredibly, this isn’t even why a lot of people are outraged about the new season. Conservatives, for the most part, either don’t really care about this show, or they’re used to this kind of rote virtue signaling. Instead, all of the outrage is coming from the Left.
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But of course, they’re not upset that this character is completely ridiculous. They’re on board with the whole “trans surgery” plotline. Their objection is that the character playing this “trans woman” character, in real life, is a man. They apparently wanted Netflix to find a self-identifying “trans woman” to play the part. And they’re upset that, instead, the actor — whose name is Park Sung-hoo — is in fact a male who does not identify as “transgender.”
As Breitbart summarized the controversy, in one of the better headlines of the year:
‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Sparks Backlash After Normal Man Cast as Transgender.
The article contains several distinct arguments by trans activists as to why, exactly, this casting decision is an outrage. And every single one of these arguments is completely and unequivocally terrible. It’s as if these people are incapable of generating a coherent, rational argument about anything. So let’s go in order here.
The first argument comes from someone using the name Dawn. And Dawn makes the argument that actors can’t play people who are unlike themselves — which is to say that actors can’t engage in acting. Here’s Dawn’s specific complaint:
This is not how you give representation… a cis man pretending to be part of a minority group just doesn’t sit right with me, especially when they could’ve hired an actual trans actress.
Then someone makes the obvious point that it’s the job of actors to “pretend” to be things they’re not. For example, an actor might pretend to be a police officer, when in real life, he’s just an actor. It’s a little trick that actors play all the time. That’s kind of the whole idea of acting.
And then Dawn responds with this:
Yes but acting or pretending to be a police officer, burglar, villain, etc is a lot more different than pretending to be transgender, neurodivergent, and POC.
Dawn never says exactly what’s “a lot more different” about pretending to identify as transgender, as opposed to pretending to be a “police officer.” But apparently it’s a “lot more different.” Unfortunately for those of us seeking to “do the work” and educate ourselves on this particular issue, Dawn didn’t elaborate.
So in search of specifics on that point, I kept scrolling through the complaints from trans activists. Then I came across this response:
I’m crying. Instead of a transfem actor they decided to slap a wig on Park Sung-hoon and call it a day.
Someone else followed up that response with this post, which belongs in a museum somewhere:
Men playing trans women reinforces the harmful notion that trans women are just men in dresses.
So the claim is now that a male should not put on a dress and pretend to be trans on TV. But that’s exactly what being trans is. If anything, Park Sung-hoon is doing some serious method acting here. He’s taking his commitment to the craft to the next level. And he’s doing it in a country where gay marriage isn’t even legal at the national level. He’s really breaking barriers.
I guess if you try to understand their non-existent logic, the idea is that it’s okay for a man to put on a dress and pretend to be a woman, but a man can’t put on a dress and pretend to pretend to be a woman. That’s one level of pretending too far.
And it’s not an exaggeration to say that it appears to be driving some of these people even more insane than they already are.
As one angry fan put it:
Could they not cast an actual transgender woman… this gonna piss me off.
Putting aside the fact that the phrase “actual transgender woman” is an oxymoron, the phrasing there does raise an interesting question — maybe the most important question of this whole debacle. And that question is: Shouldn’t these people be demanding that a female actor play the “trans woman”? They claim that trans women are women. They say there’s no distinction between an “actual transgender woman” and an “actual woman.” So wouldn’t the most “validating” option be a woman playing the trans woman — that is, a woman playing a man pretending to be a woman?
I scrolled through a lot of these angry comments, and I never found a clear answer to that question. As always, trans activists are screaming nonsense into the void. They’re not sure what they want, or why they want it. They’re just sure that they’re deeply unhappy and profoundly confused, which of course, is their natural state. They’re so angry, in fact, that even when Netflix tries to pander to them, they still find a way to lose their minds.
Once again, in the process, they reveal that they have no coherent ideology, and are totally incapable of making rational arguments that withstand any scrutiny whatsoever.
And that is why I, along with Team Sanity, won’t be watching “Squid Game” season 2.
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If you never watched “Squid Game,” it was a runaway success for Netflix a few years ago. The basic idea was that 456 people with desperate financial problems are invited to a contest at an undisclosed location, where they all participate in a bunch of children’s games like “Red Light, Green Light.” The winner gets $40 million. Then, when they get there, they realize that if they don’t win the games, they get murdered.
The show’s popularity didn’t come down to its plot, or any kind of deeper meaning. There wasn’t much to it. You could spin it as a metaphor against capitalism just as easily as you could spin it as a metaphor against communism. It was basically just well-executed torture porn. You had to enjoy watching these characters fight for their lives in these bizarre, occasionally creative deathtraps — kind of like the “Saw” films, with a little more variety. And apparently a lot of people did get some mileage out of that conceit.
It’s now very obvious, though, that a lot of fans won’t be enjoying “Squid Game” season 2, the obligatory follow-up that will be released the day after Christmas. This is the season that will jump the shark for a lot of people, on all sides of the political spectrum. We know that because Netflix has now revealed the characters for the second “Squid Game.” And one of these characters is a male former special forces soldier who identifies as transgender — and who’s competing in this game to raise money for sex-change surgery.
Before we go any further, it’s important to establish right off the bat that Netflix does, indeed, appear to be serious about this. The creators of this show, and the actor who plays this male character, genuinely seem to believe that this is a brave, intelligent casting decision.
Here’s part of the video where the actor introduces this new character. Obviously, he’s not speaking English, so you only need to see a small portion of it. Watch:
In case you couldn’t keep up with the subtitles, he says that this character is a “former special forces soldier and transgender woman” who joins the Squid Game because, “she’s short on money for her gender-affirming surgery.” This character “faces prejudice and tough situations,” but demonstrates “incredible strength and decisiveness,” and “breaks down stereotypes” on his journey to securing the cash to mutilate his own genitals.
We’ll give this character the benefit of the doubt for a second, and assume that this aspiring transgender character didn’t realize the Squid Game was a death-match when he decided to join. We’ll assume that, like many of the other contestants, he was tricked into participating, because he was so blinded by his desire for this trans surgery after getting out of the special forces — like so many special forces soldiers have been, throughout history.
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But even with that in mind, this is still coming off like some kind of very unsubtle Right-wing parody of trans ideology. Here you have someone who is clearly so reckless, and so consumed by his desire to disfigure his own body, that he somehow inadvertently joins a game where he has a 455 out of 456 chance of dying a horrible, excruciating death. That’s greater than a 99% chance of dropping off a bridge, or being shot by a machine gun, or being impaled or something like that. And he’s facing that fate because he was “short on money” for a sex change, and decided he’d do anything to get it.
That is the premise that would probably be too on-the-nose if you were trying to mock the idea of transgender surgeries, and the trans cult in general. It serves no purpose but to highlight, as dramatically as possible, how deranged these people are — and how willing they are to engage in highly self-destructive acts in order to affirm their delusions.
But apparently, we’re meant to feel sympathy for this character. We’re also supposed to observe that, although he’s willing to do anything to get his genitals cut off, he’s also extremely brave and fearless under fire. He keeps his composure in life-threatening situations. He has “incredible strength.” He’s exceptionally stable, mentally speaking. Presumably that’s the “stereotype” that’s being “broken down” here.
Imagine being in the writers’ room when they decided that this would be one of their prominent characters for their new season. It’s just stock, cliche’d pandering that everyone’s seen a million times by now. And incredibly, this isn’t even why a lot of people are outraged about the new season. Conservatives, for the most part, either don’t really care about this show, or they’re used to this kind of rote virtue signaling. Instead, all of the outrage is coming from the Left.
WATCH: The Matt Walsh Show
But of course, they’re not upset that this character is completely ridiculous. They’re on board with the whole “trans surgery” plotline. Their objection is that the character playing this “trans woman” character, in real life, is a man. They apparently wanted Netflix to find a self-identifying “trans woman” to play the part. And they’re upset that, instead, the actor — whose name is Park Sung-hoo — is in fact a male who does not identify as “transgender.”
As Breitbart summarized the controversy, in one of the better headlines of the year:
‘Squid Game’ Season 2 Sparks Backlash After Normal Man Cast as Transgender.
The article contains several distinct arguments by trans activists as to why, exactly, this casting decision is an outrage. And every single one of these arguments is completely and unequivocally terrible. It’s as if these people are incapable of generating a coherent, rational argument about anything. So let’s go in order here.
The first argument comes from someone using the name Dawn. And Dawn makes the argument that actors can’t play people who are unlike themselves — which is to say that actors can’t engage in acting. Here’s Dawn’s specific complaint:
This is not how you give representation… a cis man pretending to be part of a minority group just doesn’t sit right with me, especially when they could’ve hired an actual trans actress.
Then someone makes the obvious point that it’s the job of actors to “pretend” to be things they’re not. For example, an actor might pretend to be a police officer, when in real life, he’s just an actor. It’s a little trick that actors play all the time. That’s kind of the whole idea of acting.
And then Dawn responds with this:
Yes but acting or pretending to be a police officer, burglar, villain, etc is a lot more different than pretending to be transgender, neurodivergent, and POC.
Dawn never says exactly what’s “a lot more different” about pretending to identify as transgender, as opposed to pretending to be a “police officer.” But apparently it’s a “lot more different.” Unfortunately for those of us seeking to “do the work” and educate ourselves on this particular issue, Dawn didn’t elaborate.
So in search of specifics on that point, I kept scrolling through the complaints from trans activists. Then I came across this response:
I’m crying. Instead of a transfem actor they decided to slap a wig on Park Sung-hoon and call it a day.
Someone else followed up that response with this post, which belongs in a museum somewhere:
Men playing trans women reinforces the harmful notion that trans women are just men in dresses.
So the claim is now that a male should not put on a dress and pretend to be trans on TV. But that’s exactly what being trans is. If anything, Park Sung-hoon is doing some serious method acting here. He’s taking his commitment to the craft to the next level. And he’s doing it in a country where gay marriage isn’t even legal at the national level. He’s really breaking barriers.
I guess if you try to understand their non-existent logic, the idea is that it’s okay for a man to put on a dress and pretend to be a woman, but a man can’t put on a dress and pretend to pretend to be a woman. That’s one level of pretending too far.
And it’s not an exaggeration to say that it appears to be driving some of these people even more insane than they already are.
As one angry fan put it:
Could they not cast an actual transgender woman… this gonna piss me off.
Putting aside the fact that the phrase “actual transgender woman” is an oxymoron, the phrasing there does raise an interesting question — maybe the most important question of this whole debacle. And that question is: Shouldn’t these people be demanding that a female actor play the “trans woman”? They claim that trans women are women. They say there’s no distinction between an “actual transgender woman” and an “actual woman.” So wouldn’t the most “validating” option be a woman playing the trans woman — that is, a woman playing a man pretending to be a woman?
I scrolled through a lot of these angry comments, and I never found a clear answer to that question. As always, trans activists are screaming nonsense into the void. They’re not sure what they want, or why they want it. They’re just sure that they’re deeply unhappy and profoundly confused, which of course, is their natural state. They’re so angry, in fact, that even when Netflix tries to pander to them, they still find a way to lose their minds.
Once again, in the process, they reveal that they have no coherent ideology, and are totally incapable of making rational arguments that withstand any scrutiny whatsoever.
And that is why I, along with Team Sanity, won’t be watching “Squid Game” season 2.
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