path to nowhere hall of shame part 2- just for fun!
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transphobes and homophobes DNI
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continuing the legacy of the original ptnshame account ❤️
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insatiable fiesta event spoilers
hi everyone. not a freak post this time but serious matter rn! so as you all know (if you've played insatiable fiesta already) there was a character named carol who is transgender. so i'd like to talk about the treatment she faced as well as +
hey all! i wasnt planning on addressing this because i thought this fandom has media literacy. but apparently not for some of us. so maybe this is a bit excessive as i should play the game 'like a normal person', but im gonna talk about why representation is so important. +
me personally i think there shouldve been a fourth secret ending to ditty nightsong where instead of using her fist to slam us in the gut she actually uses her fist to slam us in th
she has just been harassed within an inch of her life, and got outed, as well as going through the most traumatizing experience in her life- and by the end of it all, she would, of course, get defensive about her identity. +
McGrath, and cabernet.
so carol, is treated very very awfully in the entire event. she is introduced as a snobby rude woman, but it is evident later on that her whole character and place in the story hinges off of her gender identity. she gets outed because a man was creeping+
on her while she was in the toilet, saying he 'saw' her secret. she gets called a 'freak', 'a 'person'', and McGrath says that she is 'going against her nature'. which is quite obviously saying that she's transgender, and everyone at the banquet is transphobic. and that everyone+
will be safer when shes out. McGrath and the guests also mock her by calling her miss carol, with italics, by gendering her correctly as a joke.
if you didn't know already, all these sentences are, very real things, that are said to trans people. in McGrath's notes+
for the guests, carol is depicted with an oyster around her, which is widely used as a metaphor for female genitalia, which is obviously a dig at her identity. +
the only sliver of anything remotely positive is macchiato affirming carol, but it doesn't really get to the root of the problem -it doesn't address the transphobia at all, and the way carol is treated. +
overall, i think this is a really important topic for us to discuss, because it's a real problem- and hopefully we can push our own community as well as AISNO to do better. while representation is important, +
another thing is that after carol gets outed, the game's narration uses he/him pronouns for carol, even though after its first run, people did criticise the team for not changing the writing for the rerun. +
and also another thing, i want to talk about how she said that she is a man at the end of the event. to anyone that thinks this means "oh see he said it himself, he's a man" or "that's just a crossdresser, he's not actually trans", i would like you all to consider: +
remember, the harassment she faced is REAL, and people getting away with such harassment is also real. and before anyone says that cabernet has committed worse crimes, remember that those are not real. trans people facing harassment is, on the other hand, very real. +
she has faced so much in that short period of time that by the end of it, the only thing she can do is give in to the people that hated on her, said rude things about her, and invalidated her. so obviously what she said doesn't mean shes not trans, its just her coping mechanism-+
in cabernets notes for carol, she says that carol is 'obviously not a variety used for breeding for consumption, but it works hard to make itself so tasty', +
i also noticed how basically no one- even McGrath, got consequences for how they treated her. McGrath only died because of what cabernet told her, not related to carol at all. after it all ended, none of the partygoers even had any consequences for all the harassment they did. +
but please give constructive feedback when possible! and if you see anyone in the community- or anywhere, in fact, tell them that maybe they should try not to be such a bigot.
i want to close this off by asking you all to try and mention this in ptn feedback- whether or not its related to this event or not. im of course not saying to choke up the path to nowhere official posts with blatant accusations +
doing it correctly is more important- it really felt at times like carol was just introduced so that the characters could be transphobic- because i did not see any consequences whatsoever.
as well as her way of defending herself from the abuse that was hurled at her. by calling herself a man first, she was protecting herself from others calling her that. +
i want to articulate that i dont want aisno to remove this section entire- but what i want is for the people who harrassed her to face consequences. i want aisno to let people know that people who act like that Will have consequences. the depiction of transphobia is scarily+
@samsafiles
@AzukiSaishi
yeah, if they punished those who mistreated carol in the event, the reception might be more positive. But the mistreatment still is uneasy to read regardless. However, aisno had done other irl issues that were handled well in other events like perfect vote's cyberbullying.
THIS IS SOOOOOOOOOOOO CUTE OKAY
@CherieLuna09
you are safe for now chief... unless you say something truly outrageous... i might have to take you back in...
insatiable fiesta event spoilers
hi everyone. not a freak post this time but serious matter rn! so as you all know (if you've played insatiable fiesta already) there was a character named carol who is transgender. so i'd like to talk about the treatment she faced as well as +