I seriously can't believe people *still* are hurt or offended by Alexander's article. I can't believe it is constantly brought up. And I can't believe that people use it as an excuse to justify this misogynistic, self-contradictory and downright lunatic movement that has already resulted in a loss of different voices and experts within the games industry & culture. And the women in game development who had to speak up about GamerGate had to fucking be anonymous in the Escapist article. ANONYMOUS! That is just some of the damage we are talking about from this movement, so please consider why you feel the need to bring up Alexander's article as an excuse for this now month-long carneval of exclusion and discrimination.
Fine that your feelings as a gamer were hurt by misunderstanding the argument in the original *opinion* piece by Alexander, but when the goddamn experiences of being a woman in this piece of shit culture and games industry consist of harassment, terrorism, and threats to your life, coupled with micro-aggressions and structural inequities, solely because you identify as a woman (or other non-default identities), you better damn well get some perspective on whose feelings and lives are actually exposed to harm.
Criticizing a stereotype by saying that the Doritos- and Mountain Dew-fueled white male sci-fi/fantasy nerd, whose identity is solely created and defined out of marketing and capitalistic incentives, is dead should not be as vitriolic and controversial as what some people seem to be championing. Unless you actually conform to that specific stereotype in real life, I understand if you're hurt, but people are always, always, always much more complex, multi-faceted and -dimensional than stereotypes, so I'm sure almost no one fulfil the negative stereotype of the "gamer".
If getting hurt over someone's opinion (who some apparently misunderstood despite tons of clarifications and explanations by others) on something as selective as identifying as the Gamer stereotype , then I must say you live a pretty sweet life if that is what grinds your gears.