So I found this negative review calling Persona 3 Portable " misogynistic " : https://www.thegamer.com/persona-3-portable-female-protagonist-retrospective-misogyny-story-character/

In addition to getting some things objectively factually wrong like the date the game came out in Japan ( Vanilla Persona 3 came out in 2006 but Persona 3 Portable which is the version of the game with the female protagonist that this person was complaining so much about actually came out in 2009 ) the person who wrote that article said that the person who wrote the FeMC in Persona 3 Portable " does not understand women " and also disliked the color pink being everywhere...

I can agree on the pink everywhere thing being unnecessary but I wouldn't go so far as to call a game " misogynistic " just for using the color pink for a female character though...

I definitely disagree with everything else this person said about the female protagonist of Persona 3 Portable though...

If her writing was so poorly done and " misogynistic " the way this person claims we would not have so many fans especially female fans asking for the female protagonist in the Persona 3 Reload Remake to the point of making a mod to add her to the game since Atlus decided to leave her out of the Remake : https://www.gamesradar.com/persona-3-reload-finally-gets-portables-beloved-and-missing-female-protagonist-thanks-to-some-very-dedicated-modders/

Many Persona 3 fans outright prefer the female MC over the male MC actually and not even just the female fans either! Her route is just more fun to many due to her different personality, Social Links, music etc!

The reviewer also said some very weird stuff like being bothered that the FeMC is closer to the female characters in the game right from the beginning like Yukari who opens up to the FeMC much earlier than to the male MC because both of them are girls...

The reviewer also seemed to dislike that one of the messages of the FeMC route seemed to be that girls should stick together against icky boys : ** " Persona 3’s female protagonist is initially viewed by other female characters as a sign of relief, declarations along the lines of ‘girls must stick together’ and ‘let’s ignore all of those icky boys’ instead of delving into backstories with maximum impact. Yukari Takeba hides a tragic past that her social link does an excellent job delving into, but the way she treats you like a friend with additional value purely because of who you are and doesn’t look past that irked me, like me being a woman was a demonstrable part of my place in this society and not something I could come to interrogate.

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Like is this reviewer bothered that women open up faster and become closer to other women than they do to males? One of the things that I and several other people who played Persona 3 Portable liked about the FeMC is that she is treated differently by the characters of the game...

The FeMC is not treated like the male protagonist with a female model swap and just called " she " and " her " instead of " he " and " him " instead she is her own character with a different personality from the male MC and has different relationships with the characters in the game...

Sometimes she is treated better than the male protagonist and sometimes worse but the game acknowledges that she is female and that being a female is a different experience from being a male...

Something seemed off about this reviewer to me so I decided to do some research and... I found out the person who wrote this negative review for the female protagonist in Persona 3 Portable is a... Guess what? Not even a real woman! It is a TIM! : https://www.thegamer.com/atlus-queer-characters/

LOL! The reviewer who complained that the P3P writers were " misogynistic " and " did not understand women " is NOT EVEN A REAL WOMAN HIMSELF! XD Does HE think HE understands women? XD LOL!

This whole thing was so hilarious that I just had to share with you all here! XD

As a Kotone FeMC fan I just had to vent about a TIM out of all things complaining about Kotone's route being " misogynistic " when I have been wanting to play as her in P3 Reload!

As if a TIM out of all things could know how real women feel and how to write a real woman better than the P3P writers! His very existence as a TIM is already waaay more misogynistic and offensive than Kotone's route and writing in P3P ever was or ever will be! :)