Elephant in the Room

Well, he seems to be yearning for the good old days... In the good old days if I recall, slapping a man in the face for being a pig was something of a commonplace. His comments are deeply and profoundly insulting in that they aim at female gamers, not at a particular technical issue and try to drive a divide in the fan base.

I was wrong about Steam. It doesn't ask for your age; I believe that was Origin.

Steam makes you enter your birthdate every time you look at a new M-rated game's page, come to think of it. I wish Steam did store my age.

He was offered every courtesy and a polite discourse, and in return his response was: Keep the women away from BioWare games! That in no way, shape or form is at all justified by anything that was said. Modern times or not, this is the point when discourse is done, hence I am walking away from this and I would not talk to this person again.

That was fine. What was insulting are the numerous posts attempting to relegate the female gamers to "another developer" and statements that females should have their own games, and the insinuation that BioWare games are for boys. I am an enthusiastic BioWare gamer since 1999, and telling me that I should go play something else after twenty years of adoring BioWare because some NPC, any NPC has short hair, and in fact that it is my fault somehow, for liking BioWare games, or that the games are not good enough for males because females like them too... this is an opinion, all right, but a thoroughly disgusting one. As well as the insinuation that me, who have purchased and loved BioWare games through the years is a cause of potential failure of the company, because I am a woman.

I would agree that those sentiments are indeed disheartening and naive. Suggesting segregation is never a good argument nor is blaming fans for dev decisions.
Honestly, all you can really do is argue for the contrary or let sleeping dogs lie.

Choice is yours and I don't fault you either way.

Wrong. Wrong. WRONG.

There is no discourse today, because every half-wit has an opinion that must be protected and is seen as valuable by someone for some reason. The internet and the ability of 13yo children to call grown men and women bitches without any fear of reprisal is the actual problem.

This is called decline of humanity by "civilization".

You know things are looking grim when some 12 year old is barking orders thinking he runs the raid group. 

If you do not trust statistics (what is it over-representing?) you can go by the word of mouth. I have played BioWare games for 20 years, and encountered a significant number of female gamers thoroughly enjoying the products. A brief look at "what did you do today?" Threads show active female participation in the fandom in significant proportion. There is absolutely no reason to dismiss, marginalize, ignore or antoganize fellow fans based on gender or over perceived grievances. We all play BioWare games, and if someone does not like BioWare games, it's that person that should look for alternatives, not call for some pseudo-scientific marketing schemes. Make good games. We, and we as in men and women both, will play them. Build bridges, not fences.

Balderdash. It doesn't matter which group a game is marketed toward. Be it Destiny, CoD or Splatoon, you're going to have adults and kids playing the same games. 

Interesting. I wonder why it hasn't stored mine.