thread of bad

[rtil]

the oscars are a joke anyway
does anyone actually watch them? i just hear about them from the internet

[BluPhoenix]

i'm glad argo won best picture

[bd648]

i have a suspicion that only three people actually watch the oscars. Everyone else just hears about it online

[Sheepy]

Pretty much.

It's pretty much a bourgeois circle jerk anyway.

[BluPhoenix]

http://www.gamespot.com/features/denial-of-the-self-queer-characters-in-persona-4-6404712/

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"As the story progresses, we're periodically reminded that, had he been gay, Kanji would not have been fully accepted by the other members of the investigation team, and, in fact, some anxiety lingers later on about whether or not Kanji is truly straight. During a school camping trip in which the protagonist, Kanji, and Yosuke are gathered in the same tent, Yosuke goes so far as to ask, "Are we gonna be safe alone with you?" suggesting that in Yosuke's mind, if Kanji had been gay, he would also be prone to behave inappropriately. When Kanji tells Yosuke that he has no problem being around girls now, Yosuke asks him to prove it, saying that if he can't, "we're gonna be stuck here all night half scared to death." Yosuke's attitudes about Kanji are problematic, and so is the game's way of handling them. Rather than addressing Yosuke's negative perceptions of homosexuality, perhaps with a character arc in which his prejudices are challenged and he becomes more open-minded over time, Persona 4 lets his view of homosexuality as something to be feared stand unchallenged and unremarked upon, treating it as normal and acceptable.

Brice writes, "There is a scene after you confess your love for Naoto when he asks the player if they want him to start talking with a higher pitch to his voice to sound more feminine, and if they choose to have a higher pitch, he will dress up in a girl's school uniform during the Christmas event. This event is more poignant in the Japanese version of this scene; instead of the pitch of his voice, he asks the protagonist if he minded Naoto's use of 'boku.'" In other words, you can cause a complete, fundamental shift in how Naoto sees and refers to himself. Brice continues, "The scene when Naoto dresses up in a girl's uniform completely transforms his personality; he's now always blushing, stammering, quiet, scrunched up as much as he can into himself... Naoto's Social Link was an extreme waste of an opportunity to explore the intricacies of a relationship when at least one partner is transgender."

I agree with Brice. In fact, I think Persona 4 is full of wasted opportunities, and that ultimately, its handling of Kanji and Naoto is more than just a disappointing failure to engage with queer characters and queer issues. By introducing the idea that Kanji is gay and that Naoto is transgender and then backing away from embracing those characterizations, Persona 4 represents a betrayal of its central theme about people learning to accept themselves and each other for who they are, and sends the message that such sexual orientations and gender identities are too scary to accept. I want to see more LGBT characters in games, but not like this. It's almost as if Persona 4 has some lingering issues dwelling in its own psyche that it hasn't quite come to terms with."

1. kanji is not a homosexual
2. naoto was never a man and was never introduced as a transgender
3. yosuke's concern is that he was sharing a tent with someone who was sexually confused at an instance in the story, this does not pertain to any sort of prejudice
4. there has already been a legitimately homosexual character in the persona series who you can engage in a relationship with(jun kurosu in persona 2: innocent sin)

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[Sheepy]

everyone's gay in persona, from what I can tell from the screencaps I get on my dash

[put]

[rtil]

i see a nipple

[Sheepy]

[Evelynn]

"If I can't be yours, no one will!~" <3

[bd648]

miku..... 

[bd648]

guys. guys.

its dollman

[rtil]

those are dollman's hopes and dreams

dollman himself cannot die, he was cursed with immortality by the curse of the kazahana family

[slack]

[dilly]

[ExBerian]

Hatsune Miku App feat. Domino's Pizza

[lasse]

[Evelynn]

lasse your profile pic is the cutest thing and I've never known who it is ;x

[Kött]

It's a character from an anime called Nichijou and I'm pretty sure that you will recognise her because that cosplay is very damn accurate.

[lasse]

special thx 2 my agent kott for handling all pr questions