No offense TD, but this about sums up one of biggest problems in the west right now.
All men bad,
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If that's what you got from me essentially saying peoples shouldn't dehumanize "whores", you're bringing the kind of personal baggage that makes me question if this is worth replying to. Nevertheless, notice I didn't say "the women in the game are portrayed in a more empathetic light." Kathleen is widely hated and for a reason; she uses her dead sister's charity, a place vulnerable women turn to in their greatest time of need, to recruit and pit them against each other in a sexual circus fueled by desperation. Now, the Carnations are there by choice, and therefor share culpability in their own fate, but that in no way makes their circumstances unworthy of
sympathy.
And come on man, what bad did Abel or Chuck do? Besides profit off of what Kathleen is doing, one is a pharmaceutical CEO and the other got obscenely rich off of weapons manufacturing.
You can imagine the skeletons in their closet. It's not a stretch to say that Rosalind, Veronica, and Victoria are more worthy of empathy than the man using prostitutes as test subjects. Nor is any of that representative of a problematic "men bad, women good attitude", as Kathleen aside, Sophia is just as bad as Abel, and Felicia herself is looking to profit off and gain sexual gratification from the club.
Even Victoria, who is venerated as a saint by the player character, turned to sex work not out of pure desperation, but to
maintain a comfortable life that many people will never experience.
That's not to malign sex work either, far from it, it's to illustrate there's granularity beyond what you purport to be "one of the biggest problem in the west."
