Swoon? In what way? Why would anyone "swoon" over a teenage (italics yours) boy model?

I would love to kickstart "Buy Ron Gilbert the rights to Monkey Island so he could make the follow-up to LeChuck's Revenge that he always wanted".

There is a metric ton of research done at the university level, which ultimately is funded by the government. Plus, governments study gender inequality all the time, why should games get a pass? And if your complaint is "why not movies, too?" Okay, you've convinced me, they should do it for movies, too! Your argument…

Didn't see that one coming

SOMEBODY will find a horse to beat over this.

Fungi reproduce via spores, so their plumbing is going to be a lot different than the sexual dimorphism seen in a lot of mammals. I'd suspect that the gendered appearance is more of a cultural adaptation.

Toadette was probably introduced because some of the same people who now question her existence, were claiming that "NINTENDO IS SEXIST, THEIR WORLDS HAVE AN ABUNDANCE OF MALES CHARACTERS BUT LACK FEMALES!"

Oh shut the eff up. Your king argued for ethical treatment of Jews? What a hero.

Sure, saying 'I'd like pizza' is fine, though a little presumptuous (again, the restaurant is full with people who like burgers, why should they listen to you?). Going in and saying 'you are obviously part of a group to disenfranchise pizza enthusiasts' is just a jerk move.

You rant doesn't mean shit to me - governments shouldn't be involved in this crap. I have a feeling this is coming from tax payers money - even worse. Let the consumer make the decisions, and the companies make the games they want. End of story.

Of course you can complain about the state of things. But do you think it's right to go into a restaurant and say 'I would prefer it if this place sold pizza', while the restaurant is currently full of people wanting to eat burgers.

But lets keep using your (now fixed!) analogy. What should be done by the minority…

Yep because sex isn't a part of any other entertainment medium at all, and totally needs to be singled out for video games.

Equality = bringing everyone down to the lowest common denominator as opposed to lifting those groups up to the highest level.

Do you guys have to fill a quota for 'video game diversity' articles per day on this site or what? If the issue was really as prevalent as the amount of coverage regularly allocated to it would indicate, more 'diverse' games would sell a hell of a lot better, wouldn't they?

There aren't enough games where you can play as a goat. What do we do?

Wonderful analogies. Except none of them are analogous to his point.

"Don't complain about a painter not painting something you wanted."
"Don't complain about not liking what a sculptor's subject looks like."
"Don't complain about a musician making country music because you don't like country."
"Don't complain about there…

You are absolutely right.

It's just for research though, which is fair enough. Other than that I agree that developers creativity shouldn't be swayed by money or governmetal incitement to create games that better suit whatever political rule the country has, even if there's only good intentions.

Reading the linked article and other articles more carefully, it appears it's just the Game Industry Trade Organization named Dataspelsbranshen that received the government grant, not the government itself doing the investigation. Link to the organization:

Why does this only include sexism towards women? Then isn't this sexist in itself?