Kudos to you, sir, for being brave enough to speak your mind! Anonymously. On a low-traffic personal blog.

But anyway: Seeing the goofy responses to this post — like that one and elsewhere — has given me an idea how much of the "controversy" around including over half the world's population in a video game is rooted in just plain defensiveness. GTA fans don't want anybody talking shit about their game, but they especially don't want anything to change.

What's ridiculous is how easy it is to get it all right, and people still just refuse to do it. They act like it's imposing some draconian set of rules that's going to suck all the fun out of a game, when it's really as simple as making a character that's different from the exact same thing you see in 10000 other games. Again, Saint's Row IV did it, and I don't get the impression it's a feminist treatise.

On one side you've got people saying, "see if we can add a female character; it's easy and it makes the game 1000x more interesting because it's something we've never seen before." The other "side" is saying "OMG censorship nothing can ever change you're destroying the community with your political correctness!" Who looks stupider here? Hint: it's not the "feminazis."

Also: what the hell is a "depleted female role?"