had four different people (three of which were men) pointing out how he was being sexist, but its like he wasn't listening at all, it's just what he thought was right, period.

That's what happens when GG politics becomes intertwined with identity. It becomes too personal to critically evaluate for some folks. I've played video games for 20 years and I still truly didn't understand how personal it is for some people until recently.

I was listening to a podcast I listen to regularly that has nothing to do with gaming. All of a sudden they were talking about DA:I (a game I personally love) in a news item, but the way they were talking about it was clearly from an outsider's perspective. And from an outsider's perspective, yeah, describing a game like Dragon Age can be comical...what with talk of questing and monsters and horned party members named Iron Bull (not even understanding what a "party" means in the gaming context) and they made it sound like such a joke that I found myself getting irritated and thinking, "They really shouldn't do gaming stories at all if this is how they're going to treat it", and that's when it clicked. Gators have been getting this attitude from practically everyone and probably feel the same way I did, but to a massively compounded degree if gaming has become a core part of who they are.

So to that point, I sympathize with them, I really do. But I also consider the way all of this gamer-centric drama looks from the outside. Others just aren't capable of seeing it from any viewpoint other than a hardcore gamer, because there's too many inconvenient truths to address about themselves personally if they ever try.