Because "functioning adults" need a constant hand on their shoulder to guide them from all the bad anonymous strangers on the internet. [spoiler]Functioning adults don't need that.[/spoiler] Also, female gamers need those same anonymous strangers to swoop in and try to speak on everyone's behalf about how sexist the internet is. [spoiler]Functioning female adults don't need that either. [/spoiler] Lol.

How strange you don't understand solidarity, empathy. You use White Knight as a lazy shorthand but what do you really mean? You don't like a show of kindness? The OP isn't particularly paternalistic. However your response is. Your knee jerk reaction places you very clearly on the side of the guys in chat posting all the shit. You can understand then, why your opinion is suspect.

Exactly how is my response paternalistic or knee-jerk in nature? Did you read it? Also, "kindness" loses its meaning on the internet; anonymity dulls the emotional investment of a kind gesture, (and of mean ones, as adult internet users should have figured out a loong time ago). So when I read long rants on the internet like OP's, regurgitating obvious social mores (discrimination is bad, mkay), I see nothing but a masturbatory attempt to prove to all these strangers how awesome he is. Meanwhile, the Dames of Destiny, being human beings, have likely forgetten about the issue by now, like any other gamer who gets trash-talked online. Or maybe they haven't forgotten because people are making such a big deal about it. Not saying that what was said to them was acceptable, I'm just saying they probably don't give as much of a -blam!- as OP.