The Aggressive Pacifist

Let’s start with the three women in question Hyun-Ju, Jun-hee and Geum-ja. (I think I’ll make a separate post on the men in this in particular Nam-gyu Myung-gi and Min-Su ) Hyun-ju drew blue but the other two drew red and were armed. Both of these women were convinced by the men in their lives to give up what was protecting them in order for the men to get them to believe they were their protectors. However none of these women chose to arm/give power to the one trans women who they knew had military experience and protected them in the past when both the men in Jun-hee and Geum-ja’s in lives in comparison betrayed them.

I believe it’s important to highlight Hyun-Ju’s transness in this as even though the characters of Jun-hee and Geum-ja were friends and were shown to us to love Hyun-Ju they are also representative of the women in society today. This shows the very real nature that women (not all obviously) would rather trust, even subconsciously of them, the cis men that betrayed them than a trans woman. And a qualified one at that.

Now back to the femicide at hand both of these women gave up what gave them power in favour of the trust of man. I think it’s particularly interesting that there weren’t many women looking to trade hiding for the knife in the first episode and it seemed to be more men wanting to trade for the knife to inflict harm rather than hide from it. (They were also being denied by other men which I think is brilliant lol but there’s more male commentary in the second to last ep).

During the main sequence of episode two I saw more and certainly heard more screams from men attacking women, now don’t get me wrong it isn’t all like this however there seemed to be more women in blue than there are men and more women hiding from knives. In addition the whole game was set out like a maze, like the maze of a city complete with alleyways to get lost in and stairs going up and down.

Not one man in blue protected any of the women, not even Gi-hun if I can recall (this isn’t a fault on his character aka please watch the show again) but a larger message about women in society today. The ONLY one person who protected women was Hyun-ju. The character the women chose not to arm, was their protector, we also can’t ignore the line that the women felt they were in allyship and even friendship together with her and that they belonged together and yet still chose not to arm her/ give her power before the game.

There were tussles with Hyun-Ju and the men in the red vests were she did take their knives/ power but only in an offer of protection to her fellow women. Plus Hyun-ju killed the majority of the men (to my knowledge) with her bare hands. Then when it came to her death a cis man, Myung-gi, Jun-hee’s ex killed her. Jun-hee gave her power to her ex instead of the trans women who eventually protected her, and he killed her out of her greed as he would’ve done any other woman. However a trans woman paid the price to protect the cis women that chose not to bestow her with power, both women were worse off for this decision. When women do not stand together women suffer.

I feel it’s also important that none of the women acted here, yes Jun-hee doesn’t not trust Myung-gi and rightfully so for the rest of the show however Geum-ja doesn’t act upon this however does later in the protection of another cis women.

And sure, there were limited weapons and most of the men likely had some military training, but enough clearly had NO idea what to do with the MP-5s that this was how we got Hyun-ju stepping up to train and take leadership of the main team in the first place. Correct me if I'm wrong but not one other woman, even the women who kept or traded for knives in Hide and Seek, was willing to step forward and learn - step forward and learn how to do the exact same thing everyone else was doing - to take the weapons and the opportunity in front of them and try to take on their jailers directly and end the games. They chose to let others act and take their chances based on the outcome, which ultimately ended in them having to keep playing, and dying.

Lastima que no pudimos verlo en la serie al final 😔

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Acá les dejo el link por si quieren ver todo el detrás de cámaras ⬇️

Maybe Shimok SHOULD be here to solve these problems cuz clearly they aren't solving themselves!

Cho Hyun-Ju in Hide & Seek Game

Hyun-ju wakes to a new life, a new beginning. Snapshots from her move to Thailand, and the peace that comes with it.

Let’s start with the three women in question Hyun-Ju, Jun-hee and Geum-ja. (I think I’ll make a separate post on the men in this in particular Nam-gyu Myung-gi and Min-Su ) Hyun-ju drew blue but the other two drew red and were armed. Both of these women were convinced by the men in their lives to give up what was protecting them in order for the men to get them to believe they were their protectors. However none of these women chose to arm/give power to the one trans women who they knew had military experience and protected them in the past when both the men in Jun-hee and Geum-ja’s in lives in comparison betrayed them.

I believe it’s important to highlight Hyun-Ju’s transness in this as even though the characters of Jun-hee and Geum-ja were friends and were shown to us to love Hyun-Ju they are also representative of the women in society today. This shows the very real nature that women (not all obviously) would rather trust, even subconsciously of them, the cis men that betrayed them than a trans woman. And a qualified one at that.

Now back to the femicide at hand both of these women gave up what gave them power in favour of the trust of man. I think it’s particularly interesting that there weren’t many women looking to trade hiding for the knife in the first episode and it seemed to be more men wanting to trade for the knife to inflict harm rather than hide from it. (They were also being denied by other men which I think is brilliant lol but there’s more male commentary in the second to last ep).

During the main sequence of episode two I saw more and certainly heard more screams from men attacking women, now don’t get me wrong it isn’t all like this however there seemed to be more women in blue than there are men and more women hiding from knives. In addition the whole game was set out like a maze, like the maze of a city complete with alleyways to get lost in and stairs going up and down.

Not one man in blue protected any of the women, not even Gi-hun if I can recall (this isn’t a fault on his character aka please watch the show again) but a larger message about women in society today. The ONLY one person who protected women was Hyun-ju. The character the women chose not to arm, was their protector, we also can’t ignore the line that the women felt they were in allyship and even friendship together with her and that they belonged together and yet still chose not to arm her/ give her power before the game.

There were tussles with Hyun-Ju and the men in the red vests were she did take their knives/ power but only in an offer of protection to her fellow women. Plus Hyun-ju killed the majority of the men (to my knowledge) with her bare hands. Then when it came to her death a cis man, Myung-gi, Jun-hee’s ex killed her. Jun-hee gave her power to her ex instead of the trans women who eventually protected her, and he killed her out of her greed as he would’ve done any other woman. However a trans woman paid the price to protect the cis women that chose not to bestow her with power, both women were worse off for this decision. When women do not stand together women suffer.

I feel it’s also important that none of the women acted here, yes Jun-hee doesn’t not trust Myung-gi and rightfully so for the rest of the show however Geum-ja doesn’t act upon this however does later in the protection of another cis women.

Icons of Cho Hyun-ju with the transgender pride flag.