It is a difficult subject. Game journalism is a horrible landscape at the moment. RPS has the saplings of some game industry coverage with some diversity starting to take root there.

I have to say frickin' bless Anita Sarkeesian for moving the ball forward. She is simply illustrating that video games and their coverage are sexist and anti-feminist. It is crazy that that act should even have to be considered brave. But it is.

And there is very little diversity showing ground up from the pro players. There are a few women/transgender pro players, but for the most part that is still boys club.

I do get it, though. Flaming out in public can be satisfying ... for a bit. Especially if there is no perceived path to success.

But the loss the industry will experience if she stays quits is not so satisfying. But perhaps that bright people like Allen even gravitate away from an industry spawned in creating echoes of ethos, pathos, and angst from a nation whose history is:

de jure slave nation->de jure apartheid nation->de facto apartheid nation

... when ex-slave (in theory) got to vote before women did in said nation.

I think, however, that, Samantha Allen should still stick it out. She could maybe offer congrats to the colleague while suggesting next time she should be hiring him.

Shit is changing.