I had to read the Straight White Male: Lowest Difficulty Setting article because I thought you were just making up a random title. I couldn't believe it was for real. Not only is it real, but there are a bunch of articles discussing the article. There was even something on Cracked mocking the 5 worst white male responses to the article.
What the hell happened to Cracked? When I used to go to the site a long time ago it was funny and now its just a bunch of SJW bullshit.
I could go on a diatribe about all of it, but I will just say that there are a group of likeminded people across varying forms of media who have the corrupt, agenda-pushing gaming media's back. They believe in the patriarchy and all that other third wave feminism conspiracy theory bullshit. That's why you see SO many sites jumping on board to defend the likes of Gawker, Ars Technica, Polygon, RPS, and the like.
Plus, they're afraid what is happening to Gawker might happen to them.
The anti-GG side is winning the PR battle at the moment, but they're slowly beginning to notice that doesn't mean shit. Something else is happening that's WAY more important than going on MSNBC and trying to get gold in the Oppression Olympics. GG has gone after their sponsors, and these people who think capitalism is a form of patriarchy are slowly beginning to feel the financial pinch they created with their own corruption and agenda pushing.
By the way, when you visit these shit gaming sites, try to use the Archive links.
Oh, and as a funny side note, GamerGhazi has started a counter campaign to the GamerGate movement of emailing sponsors. That's HILARIOUS. They honestly think they can smear GG? These companies know the likes of GamerGhazi aren't huge spenders. Sponsors are pulling out not because they believe GG is right or wrong, but because they fear they might lose money to the important 18-35 year old male demographic. When these sponsors keep getting messages in support of Gawker, that only reinforces the idea that advertising with Gawker is toxic and potentially hurtful to their bottom lines.