So naturally, she develops the subconscious perception that, rather than fight to be accepted as a woman and a detective, she needs to shed the more obvious female traits she has an try to pass as male a situation that leads to the creation of her shadow self. On top of that, all the detective stories Naoto's read and based her perception of being a detective on are male - sadly, I don't think she's managed to get a hold of these books. So I can empathise and extrapolate from the issues that Naoto would face in a very male-dominated environment. For context, 31.2% of the UK police force in 2020 were women, up from 23.2% in 2007) Now, as a guy, I've never experienced the issues women face in being taken seriously in the workplace, but I have experienced the issues of being a male teacher in a primary school, where I was one of 3 males in a staff of about 60, and there were very obvious double-standards in an environment like that. In April 2021, statistics found that 10.6% of the Japanese police force was female, and that represents an increase since 2012 (a year after P4 came out - 2012 - the percentage was 6.8%) and that means that women are gonna face some uphil battles being taken seriously. Now, I'm going to focus more on the gender issues here, because I'm pretty sure that 'Naoto has issues not being taken seriously by adults because she's 15 and actively involved in detective cases' is fairly self-explanatory though it's important, it's not as big a barrier to her mind as her gender. In Naoto's case, I don't think Naoto herself ever thinks of herself as trans - her shadow does seem to want her to undergo a sex change, but as a shadow it's the darkest parts of herself, and has seemed to go for the most straight-forward approach to Naoto's conflict). Naoto's story is interesting, as is Kanji's, because they are the stories that I would describe as Proto-Persona 5, in the sense that they provide social commentary on contemporary Japanese society (if you're as interested in that stuff as I am, seriously check out Lady Virgilia's videos on P5 Character analyses in relation to Japanese sociocultural issues it's fascinating)
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