This blogger is absolutely clueless and a prime example why the industry caters toward his kind.
Actually, it does, when you consider that a lot of female gamers disguise their gender because they know that if they were didn't, they would relentlessly harassed.
The joke about "no women in MMORPG's" is actually a rather sad one, because it's not that they aren't there. They just have no choice but to hide if they want to just enjoy the game.
Frankly, so what?
I hate to play the ogre here, but the simple fact of the matter is that video games are the way they are for a reason. Sex sells, and men are the medium's primary consumers. They always have been.
At the end of the day, complaining about the fact that the video game industry is dominated by masculine memes and caters to male interests makes about as much sense as complaining about the fact that the pornographic industry does the same. It's a self-evident truth, and one that isn't going to change simply because bleeding hearts might happen to dislike it.
Women traditionally haven't cared about video games one way or the other. Even today, the ones who are interested in the medium obviously are not so turned off by the masculine leanings of the art form as to stop buying the products developers are selling.
From an economic perspective, there simply isn't any incentive whatsoever for things to change.
Trying to effectively "shame" industry leaders into taking a more "P.C." approach to gaming with politicized smear campaigns like those mentioned in the OP isn't going to make a single bit of difference to this fact. The political will necessary to enforce such a change plainly doesn't exist in the public consciousness, which means that there isn't any kind of profit margin large enough to justify shifting products in more "feminist friendly" directions.
The whole thing frankly comes off as being little more than a shrill, attention whoring attempt at political coercion and blackmail without anything whatsoever to back it up. Most gamers rightly look down on it with contempt as such.
The long and short of the issue here is that the gender dynamics of the industry will ultimately change if, and only if, female gamers begin to take a more active role in making their presence felt in the market, and not a moment before.
If female gamers want to see more female oriented video games, they need to start making, and buying, such games themselves; not expect men to do so for them simply because "political correctness" demands it.
If that were true, why do women pay as men?
Cowardice? A natural disinclination towards confrontation in comparison to males? :shrug:
I spent all eight years of the Bush Administration with "President Bush" as my username on both StarCraft Battlenet and Xbox live.
Sufficient to say, a certain degree of "harassment" did absolutely nothing to phase me one way or the other. lol