Article 5SGQE ‘The women are cannon fodder’: how Succession shows the horrors of misogyny

‘The women are cannon fodder’: how Succession shows the horrors of misogyny

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Flannery Dean
from World news | The Guardian on (#5SGQE)

Season three of the daddy issues drama speaks volumes about the monstrous Man Club that rules society - and even billionaire's daughter Shiv Roy can't escape its sadistic clutches

Everyone eats their share of dung beetle surprise on Succession - HBO's unrepentant daddy issues drama - but the women's portions come heavily seasoned with the patriarchy's favourite ingredients: sexism and misogyny. Even billionaire's daughter Shiv Roy (played by Sarah Snook) can't escape it. It's only your teats that give you any value," her brother Kendall (Jeremy Strong) shouts after she rejects his offer to join him in another one of his patricidal business plans. Even before then, he couldn't help but put a pin in her dreams of taking over the company: You are too divisive ... you're still seen as a token woman, wonk, woke snowflake."

I don't think that, but the market does," he explains.

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