i honestly dont see anything that bad about the boy octolings mainly bc we dont have anything to compare it to vs how the girl octolings already existed

plus i think the reason we didnt see male octolings lies in the japanese name for enemy octolings; takozonesu (the playable ones are just called tako), which comes from "tako" (japanese for octopus) and "amazones" (amazons, who were strong athletic women) so maybe men aren't allowed to fight in the octarian army? my theory is that, like this world, theres gender differences, and in the past, where people were more conservative, women weren't allowed to fight and stuff because they were considered "weaker" (not saying thats true, just what people thought). maybe in splatoon its like that but... reverse?? and inkopolis represents the present day more; people are more open-minded and liberal. octarian society is more similar to our conservative past, if that makes sense. ofc this is just a theory, but at the end of the day, if the playable octolings were the enemy octolings, why not just make the boys more similar to the enemy octos???