Suppose that they did; what would stop people from using that hashtag to issue hate speech and threats?

I think you're underestimating the addictive power of righteous indignation.

"Doxxing is ok when we do it to presumed Gamergaters."

That in itself is extremely doubtful, since the origins of Gamergate trace back to a harassment campaign against Zoe Quinn on the MRA image board Wizardchan.

Why does someone have to make their own game to criticize the creative expression behind the use of certain tropes in games?

Any Muslim, anywhere? They're all equally good at programming and math, so it doesn't matter which one I thank?

But ISIS doesn't say they're ISIS. ISIS says they're Islam; it's the West that calls them "ISIS."

If God exists - that is, if there exists an entity who can suspend the laws of physics to human benefit, if only we supplicate in some specified and "correct" manner - then it's the most salient and important fact in the entire universe. It changes everything, impinges on every aspect of our knowledge and our…

I don't remember hearing a voice.

Why couldn't it be a deep-voiced woman?

The name is clearly a pun on the female name "Kenyatta", and yes, they're definitely robo-tits. (Look at it as a kind of robo-sports-bra.) It's just that Zenyatta's female body is not an oversexualized female body (i.e. Ede's Metropolis-style body in Mass Effect 3) so it doesn't quite read as "female" to you.

I dunno, what connection? Why call for a "Kotaku investigation" if you weren't trying to grind some kind of "portrayals of women in video games" grist?

Appropriative. Cyber-Buddhism is my culture, not a costume!

I'm just glad to see Dee Reynolds from Always Sunny getting VO work!

It's a pre-Alpha game. Why couldn't it just be some kind of mesh glitch?

Actual human women can adopt this pose:

I don't get it. Is there a reason you think a person's chest and pelvis can't point 15 degrees apart? If you can't rotate at the waist, she's not the one with the broken spine here, I think.

Um, "Zenyatta" has both robo-tits and a female name; is there a reason, aside from the potential misidentification in this article, that you think the character is male?

Eh, is that supposed to bother me? If that's what it took to keep him safely confined and off the streets with us decent people, I'd vote for tax-funded handies every day of the week for him. Whatever it takes to keep him docile and warehoused.

Let me guess, stupid - daddy owns a dealership? Maybe when you move out of your one-stoplight town, you'll find out that doesn't impress all that many people.

Trans women are women because sociocultural experiences and neurological/biological forces have intertwined organically to create gendered individuals who see their identity at odds with their assignment at birth.