Politics have an increasing gender gap, the progressive left is increasingly female. And they hold world views that are increasingly hostile to men. Not just feminist or anti-sexist. But world views like strong male protagonists being inaceptable per se, and it being impossible that an adult male has a relationship to a female child other than that being pedophile. So they project their world views onto Pragmata, and come up with these ridiculous stories. It is culture war, and that culture war is increasingly a gender war.

Capcom understands representation much better than the progressive left. They know that regardless of the gender of the protagonist, the majority of players for a PC/console shooter game are male. And male players do like positive male role models as protagonists. With those positive male role models having been chased out of other media, video games sometimes seem like a last bastion in which such role models are still possible. Video game journalists complaining about that doesn't tell us anything about the game in question, but only about the world views that these journalists project onto the game.