Debunking nearly every left-wing counterargument and straw man in the gaming culture war: "Games were always political!" - Everyone understands the difference between telling a fictional political story, and politicization. Political stories created for the purpose of entertainment are great. Doing veiled gender propaganda is just subversive, obnoxious, and annoying. It also muddies the waters and damages the quality of games/the hobby at large. "Why aren't the chuds making their own games?!" - Nearly every single successful video game IP that has EVER been created in the west, was originally developed by "the chuds." Aka overwhelmingly straight white nerds and dudebros. You're seeing less of that today because leftists brought DEI to the industry, allowing them to subvert merit and actually get jobs. Then they refuse to hire anyone who isn't also a leftist. Hence why all the beloved IPs keep getting coopted then destroyed. "You just hate diversity!" - Diversity has been a thing in video games since their inception. You'd know that if you weren't a tourist. It was never a problem. We hate *manufactured* / inauthentic diversity that breeds caricatures, rather than characters born from a genuine creative vision. "You just think gay/trans = woke!" - See above. No we don't. Though there's a lot less tolerance for gay shit in the industry now because there's an overt agenda to force 100x more of it into everything, regardless of whether it fits. Literally shit like the "ExecuPride LGBTQ+ Ratings System" that scores companies from 0-7 for their "queer inclusion." "You just hate women who weren't created to appeal to you!" - Uh yeah, no shit. We also hate men who weren't created to appeal to us. When you make a video game you should aim to appeal to your audience. Men and women have different preferences for what we think is "cool" or "appealing," depending on the gender of the characters. A baddie who is also cool and exiting is going to be 100x more interesting to a dude than some mopey turbodyke who "misses mah gurl" and is always sad about her problems. "That's misogyny/objectification!" - No it isn't, you don't know what those words mean. We're discussing fictional characters not real women. If I refused to engage with a real woman because she's ugly, that would be misogyny/sexism/objectification. If I refuse to play a video game or dislike a female fictional character because she's ugly, that's just me having preferences and standards for fiction like a normal person. "So you just want oversexualized DOLLS who you can goon to??" - People will genuinely come on here and say, "everything around me has to be objectively ugly, covered and modest, or I will compulsively masturbate." Sorry but you're projecting. We're discussing appeal/preferences in a video game, not masturbation. "Video games don't revolve around you!" - Uh, as a straight male, they kind of do. We are the overwhelming majority of the gaming audience, aka the paying consumers keeping the lights on. And I can guarantee you I speak for the majority, even if many of them don't understand the culture war or even realize it. "50% of gamers are women, actually!" - Sure, if you consider playing a fucking Match5 mobile phone game for 45 minutes once a week or less to be enough to constitute "being a gamer." Men outnumber women in console/PC gaming/handheld gaming, and when you look at who games at least 5+ hours per week (again, not mobile), it's not even close. As you increase the hours from 5, the gap grows much wider. Gamers are still overwhelmingly men. Women are still overwhelmingly more on the casual side. "It makes no sense for women to wear makeup in combat roles! We just want realism!" - No you don't. The realism nonsense is an excuse. If you wanted realism, women would barely be in combat roles. Also, sorry to burst your bubble but a 280lbs of solid muscle turbodyke leading a squad of Gears is not "more realistic" than a woman making herself look more presentable in public. What you "want" is to blur the lines between men and women. You believe the way women are portrayed in games "creates harmful standards." You also believe femininity was manufactured by "the patriarchy." You want to subvert and deny "the male gaze" while making troons feel better. Most women who are *actually gamers* don't want this, btw. You took it upon yourselves to change the way women are portrayed, when women were already happy with this overwhelmingly. If you're skeptical look at the most cosplayed characters. Look at the characters girl-gamers are buying merch for. Ask them their favorite character - it's VASLTY more likely to be Lara Croft, or Jill Valentine, or Tifa, etc. than it is to be Mags fucking Carter, lol. "X franchise, series, or IP was always like... super gay and woke!" - Shut the fuck up, no it wasn't. You guys always do this weird revisionist shit. Dragon Age: Origins, for example, was one of the most chud games to ever chud. A straight male-centric power fantasy from top to bottom. 1 optional gay romance and 1 gender ambiguous character with 10 minutes of screentime doesn't negate this. "Get woke go broke is a myth!" - It's exaggerated, but not really. There are exceptions to every rule (ex: Spider-Man, enjoyed by kids and normies everywhere). Nearly every woke game sells less than they otherwise would if they weren't woke. Usually massively - for example selling half or a quarter as much as previous (not woke) franchise entries. And that's setting aside the rapidly growing, insane number of once beloved studios that started doing woke shit, only to completely fucking implode, get hit with mass layoffs, closures, disastrous sales, humiliating game launches, etc. You idiots also have the foresight of a peanut so you don't understand the severity of long term reputational damage.