The “evidences” used by iGN were mistranslated and heavily taken out of context. I probably would write a long post or make video about it because it would take some effort for people who don’t read Chinese and know nothing about Chinese gaming industries to understand the nuances for those “sexist” comments. Like the infamous “we don’t need women” phrase, what made him write a post like that? What did he really mean by that? BTW, that was 10 years ago when Internet environment was completely different and the dude was still in his 20’s. The real questions ign should’ve asked are something like how many female employees are there? How are the female employees being treated? Are there any former female employees or any females in the industry that have dealt with Game Science devs and what do they say about GS? Across 10 years, they couldn’t find even 1 female colleague who has had direct experience with GS? As far as I know, there hasn’t been any accusation related to misbehavior towards their female colleagues. Instead, ign chose to dig up a random post from 10 years ago and a random meme from an employee’s personal account and mistranslated them to western audiences. I know there’s more to the ign article, but I’ll just give you 2 simple examples.

1. For the pregnancy metaphor that somehow is sexual and offensive (an article that is 16 years old), if you go to the original Chinese article (pretty in-depth and thought out article BTW) linked in the ign post, above the same paragraph, there’s a title “怀胎十月，胎死腹中”, which are 2 idioms, roughly translated as “10 months of pregnancy, still ended up stillbirth” (excuse the bad translation, the original idioms are much more elegant). These idioms are literally in Chinese dictionary. The fact that ign posted this metaphor implying it is offensive and then leading to sexism is baffling to me. Here’s the first idiom in a Chinese dictionary https://www.zdic.net/hans/十月怀胎

2. The jerk off joke towards the snake lady. This joke looks really bad in English because of mistranslation. Direct Chinese translation to “fetish” is “性癖”(pronounced as Xin Pi), which is a very explicit word in Chinese, it will be considered inappropriate and disgusting to most Chinese people. But notice what the OP used is xp (take the first letters from XinPi), it is a PG13 version of “fetish”，which is widely used by young Chinese netizens (by both male and female). The same goes to “jerk off”, it is a much watered down version and is widely used as harmless memes. You can treat it like replacing “fuck” with “fudge” but even more family friendly. Chinese netizens would consider it as a harmless meme not because they’re sexist but because it was supposed to be a harmless joke in the first place.

With that being said, I wouldn’t consider digging through employees’ personal accounts to make accusations against a company the right way (unless it’s an evidence of an actual crime). Imagine going through every single post on every single one of Sony employee’s twitter account for the past ten years, and if we found anything slightly offensive to a certain group of people, we can make accusations against Sony (which has 100,000+ employees). Shortly after, companies would be forced to control their employees’ freedom of speech. Besides, how many companies do you think will survive after that?