3/24/2023 0 Comments Papers please passport creator![]() ![]() I wasn’t expecting these feelings when I started playing Papers, Please. It was almost enough to get me to stop playing entirely, for fear of outing yet another person. I was asking that person something he or she most likely heard on a regular basis: a depressing question that reminded him or her that gender is seen as binary by society. That question “Are you a man or a woman?” took on another meaning. What if the creator, Lucas Pope, instead wanted these particular entrants to be seen as transgendered people trying to outwardly project the gender they want to be? What if the the wrong gender on the person’s passport was just the rigid rules of society forcing his or her true gender to be displayed on the passport, even though he or she ached to be seen as otherwise? When this thought occurred to me, I started to feel very disgusted with myself every time I was forced to scan a person to confirm their gender it was as if I was outing his or her’s closest-guarded secret, something one should never do to a person EVER. ![]() However, I soon started wondering if this was the case. It was just another bullet point to check on my list of things to do. I thought their unwillingness to answer the question “Are you a man or a woman?” was due to fear of being caught and possibly detained. At first, I just saw this procedure as an attempt to catch those entrants who were using some sort of fake passport and posing as another gender. You are supposed to prod the person on this and scan him or her to check their gender for correctness. Sometimes, the gender on the entrant’s passport and the gender of their character model don’t seem to match up. The primary intended purpose is to check for contraband or weapons, usually taped somewhere to the body, but there is one other reason for it as well. This scanner takes full-body pictures of the entrant and shows you their completely nude form in shockingly clear detail. Do you refuse a woman’s entry because her papers are wrong even though her husband just went through ahead of her? Is a direly needed bribe, one that could buy food for your own family, enough to get you to break the rules just once? Possibly the most depressing moment, however, is when you get access to an X-ray scanner. At several points, the game is obviously trying to impart some sort of message or moral quandary. ![]()
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