The people pushing this shit don't even play the games. Video games aren't reality. They're role playing. Plenty of men play games with female protagonists so why the fuck is it a problem for women or non-white people to play a character with a different gender/race from themselves?
To be fair, the unicode proposal does mention the use as
hungry, full, food,
Seems reasonably justified /s https://i.postimg.cc/Tw0kpftY/seemsreasonable.jpg
A professor at University of Washington (Stuart Reges) in my state got lambasted for saying something just like this. Basically stating that the reason there are fewer women in computer science is because not many women are interested in it rather than that its because of sexism. He's absolutely right but all the SJWs were reeeing about how wrong he was...without backing up their claims with any valid evidence of course.