Stop gaslighting. Stop attacking the audience. Stop pretending the messaging doesn’t matter Men have been treated as disposable, villainized, and neglected for years. Many of the games they grew up with were one of the few places that didn’t do that. Now even those franchises are pushing the same message: you’re weak, insignificant, unappreciated, and replaceable You can’t blame men for refusing to buy games made by people who openly hate them, for audiences that celebrate that dislike Men were told not to buy them, they aren't the target audience, and no-one cares about them, so they stopped buying. Also, before anyone even thinks of saying it, Resident Evil 9 (and many other titles) proved the audience is undeniably still there when the product respects them, the franchise, and that have incredible female characters. These men love women and great female characters. The problem isn’t “men hating women.” It’s men who are tired of being abused and treated as the enemy. Being sidelined in every conceivable way. Having nowhere to go. Having every escape they had co-opted and used to further abuse them and minimize everything about them The simple truth is it’s those people, those accusers, who deeply, DEEPLY, and disturbingly hate men, but they use their privilege and social power to abuse men into compliance and to silence them by saying they hate women. They are the girl/boy who cried wolf, and they are often the awful, hateful abusers they accuse others of being