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Atlus game have a big problem with homophobic and transphobia. (kbin.social)
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This comes to no surprise to anyone who has played their Persona series or Catherine. I'm just bringing it up again because I went back to play Persona 3 Portable because of all the remake news and while P3P might have the least overall issues it does still have a transwomen being portrayed as a predator. They also having the character have stubble as their not so subtle way of point out this character is trans.

Like I said there are way worse examples in their games. Persona 4 has a FTM character where the main character can active force to basically detransition.

Then there is Erica from Catherine. I love Erica and they way the character make back handed comments and even make fun of a character for dating her really irritates me.

Anyways rant over. What are your thoughts on this?

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[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The excuse they give for not adding female protagonist is just the fact they don't see the value of having one. I was playing Catherine last weekend and the way some of the people at the bar talk about women and how they basically are being ruined by women was kind of a eye opener for a lot of issues in Atlus games. I don't know how I missed it when I was teenager.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

More than anything I'm tired of the men vs women approach. I've had men make me feel shitty, and other women. Being a bad person is not exclusive to gender and it's ridiculous to think that gender works like a hivemind.

I suppose I grew up being interested in neutral interests (or didn't care about the stereotypes of an interest) so I felt like people were more individual than the gender they have.