pGG vs aGG isn't really about how women are portrayed in video games. It started out being about ethics in gaming journalism, then it became angry gamers versus the media accusing them of being scum, and now it's a minefield of a fight between an extremely aggressive segment of feminists on one side and equally aggressive "culture warriors" on the other.

And at this point it really doesn't have anything to do with "gamers" anymore, if it ever did.

That said, as a non-SJW, non-feminist, liberal, atheist, gender-egalitarian male gamer, who has been playing PC games since I got my first PC back in 98, I have to say that the portrayal of women in video games also annoy me at times. So many pretty faces that have no character, no personality, no depth. I can totally identify with people who would offer that criticism.

But what some times bother me senseless is that those people don't seemingly have a similar problem with the portrayal of males in video games. Aside from the crazy muscle-bound protagonists who aspire to a life of never-ending fedex duty, look at who gets to be the random goons thrown into the meat grinder for entertainment? Why, they're almost all males. Heck, Borderlands 2 bandits are all male and you get a bonus when you've murdered enough of them. You get. A bonus. For murdering. Males? This is something that should have given Sarkeesian and others a *head asplodes* moment, isn't it?

So yeah, women are for looking at and not much more, which is a bit lame, but men are for murdering without a second thought and maybe with a smile on your face. Is that any better? But it is what it is, and I'm not that offended after all, as long as the game is at least fun. Borderlands 2, for the record, was fun.

I wish that people would cut out the ideological and political rubbish and just focus on the cold, hard details, without all that culture war garbage. At lot of video game characters are borderline insulting, male and female. Video game story writing and character portrayal isn't really an area where devs tend to invest all that much effort. Is that good? Is that bad?

Or is it merely something we should accept, acknowledge, and maybe take into account when deciding which games we like to buy and which we games we skip? And then try not to be offended when someone makes a game that isn't specifically designed to be exactly what you or I or someone else wanted?

Regardless of what one feels, however, there is a sensible conversation to be had about modern day gender culture, but it cannot be had under the headline of "gamergate". Nothing good can come from going into "gamergate". It is a lost cause with entirely too much vitriol and hatred and burning gasoline and powder kegs. As such, I reckon GOG did the right thing backtracking on that tweet.