Yotsuyu's story is a masterful postcolonial feminist critique of female oppression

[TitanMenII]

Good analysis, OP. Don't know why people are reacting so weirdly to what's plainly visible by just playing the game and reading the story. Write more of these. The song lyric analysis and opium comparisons were particularly enjoyable to read.

Thank you. I wish we can see more of these mature stories in the future. Endwalker has close parallels with existentialism too.

[TitanMenII]

I think everyone is hostile because OP is trying to insert some very real and very present issues into a videogame for teenagers whose plot has the primary purpose of serving us a boss fight with cool choreography, and could only be taken as too deep for me in an ironic sense.

We like to think in our modern age that racism, sexism, homophobia, and colonialism are all gone and that they are now only in stories and histories. But with how the judiciary in a certain country is behaving, restricting woman's rights, Yotsuyu's story is a grim reminder of what happens when we do not protect women's right and allow society to continue oppressing women. The villains in Yotsuyu's story aren't just her parents, but all the bystanders, who likely pretended not to see the issues. Her story parallels our own reality.

[TitanMenII]

Everyone is hostile towards the OP because they're a known concern troll.

The people who call me a concern troll are the ones who circle LGBT in big red circles and asking SE to ban them.

[RyuDragnier]

A competent post with an in-depth analysis of a character as compared to real life? Completely unexpected. Interesting as hell too.

[TitanMenII]

She was married off, and then when her husband died she was prostituted off to pay for her dead husband's debts.

Meanwhile her brother Asahi was given every chance and opportunity to succeed.

We don't do this in the western world, but it's still done in some places sadly. It was practiced by most of the world at some point, and it's good to reflect on how we've improved the life of women. It's been a struggle.

It's also good to point out how Yotsuyu climbed the ranks to become the acting viceroy of Doma. There's a lack of kindness towards women in a lot of professional industries. Look at the leaders of the world in politics, look at the leaders of the world in business. Most of them are still men. Women have to work so, so much harder to progress up most professional ladders, and when we do often times we're considered cold because of how focused we are on making progress.

It wasn't even that long ago in history when the country that inspired Doma, China, was literally abandoning little girls so that they can get a little boy instead under the One Child Policy.

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[TaleraRistain]

I know TitanMen is know as a troll but this was pretty insightful and wouldn't be something that was out of place on the Lore forums.

[ZephyrMenodora]

The people who call me a concern troll are the ones who circle LGBT in big red circles and asking SE to ban them.

Or they call you a troll because, assuming you are TitanMen the First, you spent years instigating and attention-seeking on the forums. Whether your OP was insightful or not, I didn't read it this time and don't plan to. That's just the result of your prior behavior and hope this feedback is helpful.

[Oizen]

[DPZ2]

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The only real problem I see with your attempt at amateur analysis is this line: "This is much like how women were treated in East Asian culture up until the 20th century." To support the belief that only East Asian cultures treated women in this way belies the numerous Western cultures who treated women in the exact same manner well into the early 20th century. Not that the current treatment of women across multiple world cultures is much better at this point.