Though I have already dropped the game, I will share my own opinion regarding Dipatch and how the characters in the game are victims of being written by men who do not take the sexual harassment and assault seriously if it is done to men.
Invisigal would be a hated character if she was a man.
Imagine a man following a hsirtles sowman into the bathroom, told her about a sex dream he had of her, and revealed he had been stalking her the whole day without her knowledge. Imagine if that same man pushed a woman to the wall and began kissing her without giving her time to even realise what he was doing, and didn't wait until he had her consent.
That's exactly what Invisigal did. And yet, she is one of the most popular characters in the game. Mineta from My Hero Academia is rightfully hated for trying to be a peeping tom. Invisigal IS a peeping tom and forced a kiss on someone and is liked.
And that is only because she's a woman, and there's a big problem with society not caring if a woman is a pervert. Malevola goes up and pats Robert's privates, and that's played for laughs.
And I know people are going to say, "She's a reforming villain, of course, she's gonna be bad. Flambae tried to kill Robert when he revealed he was Mechaman. Why aren't you complaining about that?"
That doesn't mean what she is doing is okay. And there is actually a difference with how the game treats Flambae acting like a bastard. And it's that we aren't asked to support that.
Whenever Flambae misbehaves, he is reprimanded and receives his comeuppance from Robert and the others. But when it comes to Invisigal being creepy, the game frames what she is doing as weird, but not wrong.
In fact, with the Bathroom scene, the dialogue options either show complete apathy to her creepy, stalking behaviour or show interest, like what she's doing is desirable. The game is clearly telling you that what she is doing isn't bad and is actually attractive.
And people will say that, "You are playing as Robert, and he doesn't care."
Okay. Why was he written as not caring? You think Dispatch is the first piece of media where the harassment or assault of that character is shown to not be evil, and that character doesn't mind? Ever heard of 'Revenge Of The Nerds'?
Dispatch has a serious problem with how it frames perverted acts and how they aren't issues if the perpetrator is a woman and the victim is a man.
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