Do you thk they'll let Joker be gay P5R? - Persona 5

Contents:

• PERSONA 5: CAN YOU BE GAY?
• CAN YOU BE GAY THIS GAME?
• HOW PERSONA 5 LETS DOWN S GAY PLAYERS
• DO YOU THK THEY'LL LET JOKER BE GAY P5R?

PERSONA 5: CAN YOU BE GAY?

Sadly there is no gay optn for romance this tle, as the player is rtricted to around 8 or so women that you’ll meet throughout your journey. Sce you are portrayg a very specific character a more lear narrative ’s highly unlikely that veloper Atl will add any gay romance optns the future.

CAN YOU BE GAY THIS GAME?

Why you n't be gay persona gam. The reason why is bee you n make the ma character gay but characters like ryuji and ye (nnonilly) aren't gay so even if Akira was ( nnonilly) gay you still wouldn't be able to date akechi or the other guys.

( but if atl put gay characters persona them maybe. The two unnamed men are the only explicly gay characters the game:.

They are effemative gay men, who are basilly preyg on the nocent straight mor Ryuji.

HOW PERSONA 5 LETS DOWN S GAY PLAYERS

The game lets you rpond wh a joke rponse to Ryuji that he has to basilly ’man up’ agast the unmanly gay men. So the scene starts wh the two gay men makg their entrance. The scene is amed as beg reflectn to the boy’s attempts to h on women earlier, so ’s more or ls meant as a ”punishment” towards them wh the st of showg the gay men aga an offensive light.

And then the gay men nng after them, sce they are gog to forcibly harass them. The boys manage to pe, and the two gay men are never referenced directly the game aga, unls you go out of your way to talk to them Shju, where they make remarks about another male character who is still a mor.

DO YOU THK THEY'LL LET JOKER BE GAY P5R?

This is basilly yet another example of a very troublome trope wily known as "All Gays are Pedophil". This showg this game is pecially bad due to the two characters beg the only two fely gay men Tokyo Protagonist will teract wh. The ia that ”All gay men are sexual predators, huntg for pecially mors/children” is pecially troublg due to how this stereotype about gay men is actively ed as a reason to abe and hunt Gay mory Rsia pecially.

The group is said to equate homosexualy to pedophilia, and is also alleged to target gay men and subject them to siar abive treatment. So is worryg and harmful to see the game e this very damagg stereotype towards gay men, pecially this se where the two characters are the only explicly gay men the whole game. But the game giv you explicly no gay romance choic, which is unfortunate, although not exactly a surprise, given how Persona 3 (Outsi of P3P where Female Protagonist uld romance Elizabeth and Aigis) and 4 were absolutely no-no to gay choic, even when would have been the most logil ncln wrg wise (Persona 4 for example removed Yose’s romance optn pletely, even though there are signs that he was origally gog to be one.

At the end of the scene, the people the boat next to you and Ye thk you two are a gay uple. It’s also a scene where the ma protagonist shows some distrs of beg even labeled gay, and you are not given any other optn about .