From speaking to several women within the AAA industry, including one in particular who talks at schools about pursuing a career in the games industry, this narrative of women getting attacked for no reason, and the grossly incorrect view that the games industry itself is an actively hostile place for women, or a self-fueled ‘old boys network’, is making the problem WORSE

So when women find out that other women in the game industry have almost ubiquitously had negative experiences, they're not inclined to pursue it as a career?

Shocking.

Does this need deconstructing? You have a prototypical game dev saying the problem is, women are pointing out the problems. It was so much better when they were silent about it, and it's actually THEIR FAULT for bringing up issues within the culture. And this is backed up by some anecdotal evidence that is in conflict with vast data from women across all STEM disciplines.

No, he wants the boys club to stay intact, but he also wants women around that won't complain about it.

The MOST important take away from this is he's saying that when women share their experience of working in the game industry those experiences are invalid, and the real problem is that they're... lying? They're part of a conspiracy?

Who knows.

But again, it's depressing that people view this as anything except a shameful pity party for the majority.