[ SECRET POST #2839 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2839 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

look, I'm a trans woman too, and I agree with you on almost all counts -- Naoto is very much not trans and her storyline is very clearly a commentary on japanese sexism (esp. in the police force) and gender roles and it drives me nuts to see people apply a trans (trans male, anyways) reading to her when it's not only the opposite of what her character is about, it's essentially that person deciding that they WANT her entire character arc to be a horrible, offensive clusterfuck.

However, the game literally used reassignment surgery as an element of her shadow, and that's not anyone applying western standards to her storyline. It's there, in the game, and the fact that it's essentially for shock to drive a point home was still kind of fucked up -- that's unavoidable no matter the culture.

[(Anonymous)]

It was used to show how forcing roles and perceptions and such on other people is terrifying. Her Shadow is her repressed desire to be taken seriously, and stems largely from her desire to be a man to be taken seriously. So it took her at her fucked up mental processes' word and decided to take matters into its own hands. If she wanted to be a man to be taken seriously, then by GODS was it going to answer because that's what Shadows do.

That's like saying that presenting Kanji's shadow as a flaming gay homosexual is horrible and used for shock factor when it's not. Naoto is terrified because she solidly identifies as a woman and that's what she sees as the problem with herself.