This is kind of an interesting topic, and in fact you sense there is something of great importance here. It's kind of a topic where the Catholic just stands back and watch. You basically have the socially liberal libertarian , usually atheist (taking the gamers side) against the old school commie leftist feminists.
First a quick background for those who don't know anything about it. I heard about it a year or more ago, and never really studied it much. I was surprised to find it still around as a controversy. It started rather benign, a feminist gamer developer was outed for having slept with a reporter from the gaming industry, and she got good reviews from him for what evidently was a crappy game. This was the Zoe person. The gamers formed a hashtag "gamergate" and began discussing it. You had the normal trolls posting threats, but you also had people discussing topics about the gaming press, and how it had become dishonest.
The gaming press hit back literally attacking its own audience, focusing on the troll remarks and not addressing the issue. It became a feminist issue. There were reports of death threats, which many suspect were faked by the reporters themselves, and yes probably some real threats by trolls.
Gamergate then goes national and a feminist named Sarkeesian, claiming to be a gamer or some sort of expert, wades in writing a story about depictions of women in games. She even posted a game template for a new game promoting feminism, which became a joke with not one developer buying the game.
As of now, it looks like Gamergate is winning the war, actually they might have already won. The gaming press, which was in bed with feminists kind of started a war they could not win, and the computer/social media prowess of gamers outmaneuvered the liberal press. Even Anonymous chimed in outing Sarkeesian as someone who lied -- she was not a gamer. So where it stands now the gaming press has agreed to a code of ethics, but interestingly, the feminists can't let it die. Here's a good video summing things up. Note it is from an atheist libertarian youtube channel, which is in itself interesting:
I don't know what to make of this, so I'll just list some points:
1. This was a war between socially liberal vs. socially liberal.
2. There's a lot wrong with games for Catholics, especially sexually suggestive stuff, so we don't have much of a dog in this fight. However its good to see the feminists getting their butts kicked.
3. This is a predictable outcome of feminism. You take away the feminine female side of the social bargain, and men have taken away the gentlemen side of the bargain. So secular males want to see scantily clad women that look hot in their games. This is the same phenomenon that explains why men don't marry. It is satisfying to watch the feminists whine about what they themselves created, predictable by anyone with a Catholic brain. I want to stress this point, the feminists killed the gentlemen in secular culture.
4. The press got their butts kicked by believing their own feminist crap. They some how convinced themselves that attacking their own audience would be acceptable since it was a feminist message. I've seen this kind of drinking their own kool aide mentality before. It is something we need to observe and remember.
5. Sarkeesian is an interesting character, it is hard to figure her motive. First and obvious she got page views from the controversy. She made money off of it. This is the most obvious, so is probably all there is to it. Second, the suggested game she came up with keeps me from accepting the first explanation as the only cause. She could have been setting up a "feminist consultant" industry, which I observed in the oil industry with the "sensitivity training" consultants. Gaming is where the money is, so get your slice. Third, and most sinister, is again revealed by her suggested game. It goes like this: the commie feminists realize that TV and the mainline press are dying out. Gaming is huge. So this could be an attempt to get a new vector for reprogramming, just like TV was used to reprogram people to accept faggots.
I find this topic interesting. There's more here than meets the eye.
For the logically challenged, I don't accept the scantily clad women in the games. However, I reject feminism obviously. Men are still men, and when you take away the Catholic Faith, they are going to revert to their fallen nature. So it is predictable that they will look for hook ups, not want to marry, and want to see hot chicks in their games.
