I usually prefer my social commentary more subtle, Creamerie just dialled everything to 12 to the point that trying to comment on its ham-handedness is essentially missing the point. Given so much of the first seasons was about criticism of that particular kind of white feminism that's about exploiting women, season two is more traditional kind of over the top gender politics.

What if the men are the ones who have biological disadvantage that can be twisted into "needing protection for their own good"? What if the world defaults with the assumption that a human is a woman, and a man as at most an afterthought? What if the men are the second gender/sex where their only worth is to provide fertility to women? What if men are deemed as prize for women to fight over, but also they are socialised to believe their entire goal is to be a "good boy" so they can be rewarded with minor materialistics like nachos and sweets? Oh, but men are protected, they are "more equal", as long as they knew their place as subservient to women's agency. The car scene is essentially where the only absolutely minority is a white man, also one of the few men who is fighting for his autonomy.

Meanwhile, while the women are busy fucking over each other for ownership of a man to prove their fragile femininity, they are still not exactly cooperative with each other either, just now it's the infighting between the women to achieve the top queen status.

Like this whole thing is so much more of social commentary regarding to traditional paternalistic hierarchy, just flip the gender and find-replace the "toxic masculinity" into "toxic femininity". The unflinching female-gazing is both deprived and intentionally offputting.

It's absolutely ridiculous, but the most ridiculous thing about it is when it's not the dystopian fiction, but the male version of dystopian reality, we got used to it and just decided because this absurdity is the norm so it's fine.

It's also genuinely funny, in an edgelord dark humour kind of way. It's really really edgelordy though.

I can say with sincerity that if I didn't know about the director's firm stance about actor safety, and intimacy consultant was involved in all of the sexual scenes, I'd actually feel bad watching this. The fact that I'm more viscerally upset about men being sexually exploited specifically because it's rare in fictions, says a lot about the status quo and my own unconscious bias about how women are treated by the media, and largely rest of the world.

#creamerie