So I was actually looking into their evidence for the claim that
"Katsura Hashino possesses virulently offensive and phobic views on the LGBT community, women, and other groups". If someone really is hateful and promoting violence then I think that's worth pointing out, so I was looking into their claims in 'good faith'.
Reality: They express shock, no disgust, that the character the game labels "Beautiful Lady" is male. They even lament that they struck out ("this sucks... we're 0 for 3".)
Reality: In the linked interview, he says he personally had no female childhood friends so he didn't know how to portray it in the game. Soejima agrees, and literally states that he's open to the idea that it is possible for boys and girls to be childhood friends – which is the exact opposite of this claim. That's literally a forged quote nowhere to be found in the cited interview.
Reality: Yosuke was guilting them into hanging out and swimming with them; he brought up the bit about owing the guys *before* the swimsuits appeared, so it wasn't about owing an exhibitionist display. The only reason they end up in the swimsuits is because they said they'd join if they had swimsuits. The swimsuits weren't some skimpy fetish gear – they were the new releases from the department store. He IS criticised for his actions and punished – the girls get angry and push him into the cold river, and another character is puking upstream. The game encourages you to laugh at him getting what he deserved: girls being angry at him, freezing in cold water, and getting covered in vomit. The joke is that Yosuke
thinks he's smooth, but his plots only make girls mad and backfire. I can't believe you have to explain a joke to these people.
Reality: Kanji was bullied by girls and called queer for liking things that weren't stereotypically masculine. He developed a fear of girls as a result. Both of those things led him to worry that he was gay and feel ashamed for hiding his identity. The game instead promotes the message that your hobbies and interests don't need to align stereotypically with your gender, don't determine your sexuality, and your sexuality shouldn't matter – we all fear rejection and just want to be accepted. And if you accept that a person can have any interests regardless of their gender and sexuality, then homosexuality ceases to be an insult to imply someone isn't a real man. But I guess ResetERA wants to put people into little boxes: if you like girl things, you're gay. Or trans.
Reality: He's attracted to Naoto before it's revealed that she's a girl, while she's dressing androgynously and everyone thinks she's a guy. That would imply he's bisexual. But for some reason LGT keep wanting to erase B.
I can't refute the rest because at that point I just stopped reading. They've got about as firm a grasp on the truth as Jussie Smollett.
