I hardly think there is a serious issue with women in the video gaming community or games themselves today
we have tons of series that have popped up for decades with female heroes who were strong and saved the day. from Laura Craft in Tomb Raider, to Sheik/Zelda in The Legend of Zelda, to plenty of others
sure there are examples of sexualized women in games and princesses acitng as damsels in distress, but let's not kid ourselves- those are to some degree reflections of reality in some cases and not that absurd
there are plenty of games with male characters sexualized and constantly without their shirts on or whatever, and plenty of games in which the protagonist (male OR female) has to help a totally helpless male NPC
in terms of the community online and females- get OVER it! it's the internet! if a woman is getting a bit more attention while playing a male dominated online game it's not the end of the world. from my experience most of the time it will be a positive attention, where people are talking to them and trying to aid them in-game simply because they aren't coming across a lot of active female players
in terms of the harassment to Zoe and Anita (the feminist gaming activists), as many know those two simply are in it for a cash in. they have been pictured owning many games that they have labeled as 'sexist' or 'overly violent' and seem to have only recently become major gamers. the only reason gamers have given them crap online is because of the BS spewed out by those two.
in the end though I would consider video games a form of art, and the concept that they should be censored as to not offend anyone is absurd. like 99% of any entertainment out there contains SOMETHING that could offend someone. and in terms of people talking crap to feminist leaders online- guess what, its the internet, people are fairly free to voice their opinions. it would be one thing if it was a one sided conversation with gamers yelling at the GamerGate feminist crowd but it's not, it's going both ways because it has been an ongoing discussion
I will mention that the Canadian Prime Minister seems to be talking about enterainment as a whole a lot in that article, especially music, so I don't know how personal they are going after video games in particular
