Despite the actual point of this article, I'm really happy to see the frequency of posts from many writers at Polygon/The Verge about sexism and related issued in the gaming industry and game development. I'd guess and say they publish at least one or two articles on the topic per week, and all of them are fantastic. To whomever at Polygon/The Verge that decided to go on this editorial route, thousands of kudos.
There has been a consistent onslaught of articles by the same cabal of the authors about sexism in the gaming industry. All of them include anecdotal evidence that rampant sexism exists and how terrible it is, but offering little concrete evidence proving the problem is getting worse. From the article "Things aren’t getting better for women on the internet; they’re deteriorating." By what measurement? Could it be because there now more prominent women on the Internet, or because the problem is actually getting worse? Is the expectation that the Internet becomes the one and only bastion of humanity where sexism doesn't exist?
I question whether this problem is so pervasive that the authors and editors feel readers need to be consistently bombarded with it, or whether the position is so salacious and instantly defensible that authors and editors have learned they can benefit from the attention the topic receives.
Perhaps I'm just bitter because I was just banned from Polygon for expressing this very perspective.
