As I've mentioned before my guilty pleasure with video games is The Sims. I recently had an article in my feed celebrating the fact that a recent survey showed that The Sims audience was 60% female. That doesn't surprise me, because I think a game like the Sims is a type of genre that would appeal to more women, but good grief am I sick and tired of the double standard!
The same old story. If women enjoy a game it is cause for celebration, but if men enjoy a game then they are evil and are keeping women out. Part of the reason I stopped getting gaming magazines (been reading them since the days of Nintendo Power) was because I got sick and tired of every other issue having some article about some poor woman who was told mean words when she was playing online or the millionth article about a female developer because we have to be constantly reminded there are women who are in the gaming business.
I will forever rue the day that the gaming industry took seriously the garbage that Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkisian spew out. I guess it was somewhat satisfying when Anita got upset about a race swapped Buffy reboot, because when it is something she likes it isn't ok to crap all over it.
Zoe Quinn and Anita Sarkeesian were nothing more than useful pawns and figureheads of the gaming industry to shame male demographics into accepting worse games, in order for these games to better appeal to women, therewith expanding the consumer base and profit potential of games in general.
Everyone knows men and women have different tastes in entertainment. By toning down the pandering to male tastes and ramping up the pandering to female tastes, they wanted to create a unisex product.
And unisex products are generic garbage per definition.