At CES Intel unveiled a program to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to try to get more people into technical fields, particularly women and minorities. This is great news! In fact, I can’t think of anyone who would be against this.

During the event, Intel even featured the Feminist Frequency logo which, to me, implies that she’s either compromised her position or surrendered it outright if she’s now in favor of more people getting into game development rather than arguing how bad games are for society.

The more diversity in the people who make games the more diversity there will be in the types of games being made. I hope. If that happens, maybe there will be less pressure on people like me to insert socially conscious robot wizards into my space ship games.

Meanwhile…

What I found particularly strange is how some in the media have covered this. The Verge has made a very odd article literally entitled “Intel opposes Gamergate as part of $300 million effort to fix diversity in tech”. I’m not sure what that has to do with GamerGate one way or the other.

Last time I checked, the issue GamerGate had was with journalists choosing who and what to cover based on their politics and personal relationships along with misrepresentation their critics as misogynists. Getting more people to become engineers instead of say, communications majors, would be something I suspect most people who identify as supporting GamerGate would want.

If someone else wants to show their opposition to GG by giving hundreds of millions of dollars to something everyone wants then please, do so. I’ll build the strawmen myself to help.