Ovinomancer
No flips for you!
Is this a gaming problem or a broader cultural one, though? There's an argument for male social outcasts being attracted to gaming as a safe space and then gatekeeping against women as their oppressors. This doesn't align with the current zeitgeist of privileged men and oppressed women, but it follows exactly the same pattern as saying women have been oppressed by male gamers and so its okay they erect gatekeepers so they can have a male-free safe space.Also: How they're treated at gaming stores, conventions, online forums, twitter, reddit, VTT's, etc...
The problem with defining -isms according to a preferred outcome is that you open the door to others doing the same. At that point, you're not arguing principles anymore, but instead comparing who can yell louder. This fails to serve any real reform or to address underlying issues and instead sets up a treadmill where -isms are constantly morphing in definition, usually headed in the more and more specific direction.
Some minor social filtering is fine. No men allowed fir a group is fine, but tgen so is no women allowed. Saying you can have the one but not the other invokes Animal Farm's "some animals are more equal than others." We should strive to reach a goal of no unequal treatment, not justify other forms of discrimination in the name of reciprocity. All that does is push to reverse the roles but keep the discrimination.
This isn't to say that there aren't real, addressable problems -- there are. Improving codes of conduct are very welcome changes. Awareness is improving, as is intolerance for bad behavior. We can do better. But, things like art being a high focus? Sure, inclusive art is nice, but nowhere does it make a difference unless those affected are already playing in a group that accepts them. Art does not increase the number if gamers excluded due to duscrimination; it is a nice bennue to those already inside. By all means, do inclusive art, but ket's nit pretend tgat's anywhere near tge frontlines of combatting discrimination.