Only reason I can think of is because some suspect (with some legitimacy, imo) that the two had developed at the very least a close friendship, prior to the game jam article he wrote on her and other individuals involved. The appearance of impropriety could extend to some extent to support of an SJW narrative.

The article is so thin though.

I couldn't agree more.

My general critique of these fallaciously broad generalizations:

But... if you play SMB or Legend of Zelda you're merely enforcing tropes against women.

I don't agree with you there. The way she wrote that article about Temkin, and then tried to defend it in the comments, even going so far as to suggest that the statistics about rape gave some sort of legitimate permission consider him guilty in the manner was yellow journalism that fit a biased narrative at its…

Therein lies a bit of the problem. If it had been a female claiming sexual harassment, these sites would have "blown the fuck up"... but a male? There was literally zero coverage of it, or even the response to it.

Ashamed? For a hobby?

"Gamers are over. That's why they're so mad."

The real solution is to ignore the hate and respond to the civil discourse.

No he's not. He said he addressed legitimate concerns and critiques about the content in her videos, and got shouted down for it.

This is false.

I think it was an issue in that I meant that the article was created to excessively gin up controversy, and not actually discuss character design.

Sometimes creating false controversies is simply creating false controversies... like Jason's original Dragon's Crown article, or Patricia's article on Temkin.

Materialism? Dude... just stop. I hate to break it to you, but Cosmo's writing staff, that thing that all those women buy to get caught up on the latest material issues, is dominated by women... even their editor in chief. So unless you're willing to hop on the crazy train and start saying that women are oppressing…

If you can't see the double standard then we aren't going to see eye to eye on that issue.

Serious question here. How are you going to ensure that your writers are recusing themselves when personal friendships come into play (your own policy)?

You don't think it's at all possible for devs to provide preferential access to Patreon backers simply because they are backers?

Talk about a massive fucking double standard there.

Forget the rest of the industry issues. The two items I listed are basically knowns, to the point that Greg Tito made a correction to the original Wizardchan story after being called out for admitting bias.