Boycott Atlus

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but the trans lady...I wouldn't say the behavior is purely transphobia, think there's also supposed to be some crappy attempt at squick having the older woman be very open with her advances - being Japan, with the whole social stigma with men expecting women to be submissive and the "can't get married by 25, won't get married ever" thing...

While the social stigma of a strong woman may somewhat apply, the line-up with transphobia is extremely obvious.

Transwomen specifically are stereotyped as tricksters and sexual predators. Its not an uncommon for people to believe that we go through what we do for the sole purpose of sleeping with as many men as we can without our "victims" knowing anything about it. At least not until we're done with them.

We are also widely considered to be disgusting. "Tranny" is used very often to make something sound more gross than it already is. A specific example I can offer is from an episode of My Name is Earl in which Earl and his brother are licking the window of a police car that separates detainees from the officer. The officer warns them not to do that as he had a "hep C tranny hooker" do that earlier. Because, you know, our hep C is worse than your hep C.

So the message sent in that scene of the game is that innocent guys combing the beach for babes were approached by a disgusting, predatory woman-who's-not-really-a-woman.

That alone is enough for me to boycott ATLUS specifically.