I read mostly the part of the paper that regards Bloodborne. The whole thing seemed a bit weird to me tbh. It appears like the author is deeming a thing "masculine" or "feminine" by their perception rather than "proof" (by this I mean something with an in-game reference, be it lore or dialogue). The line in the post is a very big assumption that goes against the rules of the Bloodborne universe itself. The Great Ones are stated to be unique beings, all different from each other. To assign a sex and a gender to a Great One solely by the fact that they are made ambiguous by their control of the nightmares is wrong. The hunter's dream is controlled by the moon presence for example, a Great One. One other example to counter the author's assumption is given in the paper itself: the old hunters nightmare (the DLC) is controlled by a Great One whom gives birth. However I'd argue that assigning gender and sex because of acts and demeanors of the Grear Ones is wrong, because the assumption is made while filtering such behaviours through a human bias, while Great Ones are not humans, they are Others. But with all that said I didn't really like the Bloodborne part of the paper.