Also really, calling Yosuke's behavior homophobia? I mean, they ARE friends, so it's not like he hates him for being gay; it seems kind of like typical "I don't know anything about gay people except that they like guys, does that mean he will jump me in the night?" panic that straight guys occasionally feel around gay guys, especially when they don't really know any gay people very well.
And I thought the game lampshaded the silliness of that pretty well during the summer camp scene, where right after Yosuke expressed these fears re: Kanji, Chie and Yukiko come into the guys' tent and basically express the same fears over Yosuke, by which he is quite offended (though given the pervy swimsuit scene the next day, they probably had more reason to be creeped out by him than he did of Kanji).
ETA: And honestly, the only thing I could see being offended by in Kanji's dungeon was the fact that Shadow Kanji was such a gay stereotype, but then so was everyone else's (even if all the females but Chie so far seem to fit the "skanky nympho" stereotype with their shadows).
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Also really, calling Yosuke's behavior homophobia? I mean, they ARE friends, so it's not like he hates him for being gay; it seems kind of like typical "I don't know anything about gay people except that they like guys, does that mean he will jump me in the night?" panic that straight guys occasionally feel around gay guys, especially when they don't really know any gay people very well.
And I thought the game lampshaded the silliness of that pretty well during the summer camp scene, where right after Yosuke expressed these fears re: Kanji, Chie and Yukiko come into the guys' tent and basically express the same fears over Yosuke, by which he is quite offended (though given the pervy swimsuit scene the next day, they probably had more reason to be creeped out by him than he did of Kanji).
ETA: And honestly, the only thing I could see being offended by in Kanji's dungeon was the fact that Shadow Kanji was such a gay stereotype, but then so was everyone else's (even if all the females but Chie so far seem to fit the "skanky nympho" stereotype with their shadows).