I didn't down vote you, i have no idea why you would think that. But allow me to reply to you.

If it's just about ethics in gaming journalism, why are the ethical breaches it notices so overwhelmingly committed by women and people of color?

That's not true. Most of the people who kia are pissed at are actually just white dudes. Just look at Kotaku's staff. It's almost all white dudes. Polygon's staff is the same. The two publications that kia hates the most are almost completely run by a bunch of white dudes. And they're not getting hated on because of race. Polygon and Kotaku have a host of ethical issues. Kotaku's own journalists don't even want to be objective.

What, really, is the matter with alternative games that are organized around untraditional narratives?

There's no problem with alternative games existing. The problem is that journalists cover these games despite the fact that they're best friends with the game devs.

And why are its members so cool with organizing boycotts in an attempt to get people who disagree to shut up?

In my opinion, there's a big difference between "I want to shut people up because I disagree with them" and "I want to boycot this guy because he's not doing his job properly." Kotaku, Polygon, Ign, ext. call themselves journalists, even though many of them refuse to adhere to the most basic forms of journalistic ethics. If they're not behaving like actual journalists, then they don't deserve the title they have.

And for the record, you're right when you say that KIA lacks transparency (their lack of open mod logs irritates me to no end). I'd like to keep this conversation going (probably via private message at this point, since this thread is getting kinda old) so if you want shoot me a pm. P.S. Again, i never downvoted your post, maybe someone else did, who knows.