"Female game makers are also slowly making their mark on the industry, with 22% of game makers from around the world identifying as female "
-- So to raise the number of females in the company ask Joe and Paul in the corner to self identify as women on the survey, that will help us show progress, if they visit we will ask them to put on wigs and dresses!
And this gem of hypocrisy:
"I feel no difference as a gamer playing muscular male Kratos in God of War or my customised, old and wise female character in Bloodborne. I play to relax, get into a story world and feel a flow in movement and slashing of monsters, because everything is well-designed. As a game developer, diversity and inclusion is always at the core, and that work never ends if we want to keep up quality in our industry.”
-- Good, if it makes no difference for you, why do you spend so much time trying to impose your choices on everybody else.
My impression is that these people want to push themselves in the industry as consultants, they go after almost random things, somehow the press reacts to it, and gaming studios hire them, or fire their best people over the fully made controversy (which is why we don't take the press seriously anymore)... in that kind of case, ideology is just a facade, it's about power and control.
She makes a ton of assertions, without any argument, and we are supposed to respond rationally, when in fact the statements are empty shells:
"For an apparently modern industry, much of gaming puts women and men into alarmingly traditional roles: powerful hunter-gatherer man, scantily-clad doe-eyed sexy woman. It’s part of the retrograde projection of gender that’s afflicting the music industry at the moment too. Does it matter? You bet it does! If we perpetuate distorted stereotypes through entertainment it has a fundamental impact on progress in the real world, especially on young people’s aspirations and self-esteem. "
--- We have good reason to believe this is the other way around, video games are a product of the observation of the world people who build them saw (for better or for worst). I'm all for people to play the role they want, live in a more "traditional" way, or completely reverse the gender roles, however, I don't think that the traditional roles are worse, in fact there are good reasons to think they lead to better outcomes than the current society we have that has a suicide and depression epidemic... I mean, after a while it's not a breakthrough anymore to put a female in a soldier outfit and make her act as if all men ever did was put her down at every occasion.
I never minded that Samus as female, nor did I care when I though that I played as Zelda in the Zelda games, it's not as if gamers were that sexists to begin with, we just have been tared by a group of activists, which is completely different, now they have jobs in big companies (EA, Activision, UbiSoft, etc.) and they derail development, ruin all games they touch.
