Gamer might mean players coming to play games as they are interested in the gameplay provided by a game.
In opposition to players who come to play games for cultural reasons (peer pressure, trends etc) or to be represented in a non existent world (players wanting story etc)
This journalist probably addresses players other than gamers, provides no analysis on gameplay.
All the fuss around the gender is a product of players other than gamers. Why advocate for withdrawing a name when the associated people are not behind the scandal?
It is better to properly name the other players, those who are responsible for the scandal.
The woman in the video is the same as her male counterparts. She belongs to the same bag.
She is infuriated as she sees no room for strong women representation in video games because her male counterparts take all the room to flatter their ego by associating themselves with strong men representation.
They are the same breed fighting over the same bone. Story and representation.
Why associate gamers who are a different breed? Gamers do not care about representation, playing an avatar that is a cat, a worm, a hedgehog, a monster, a mouse, or even no avatar at all, does not matter to a gamer.
What matters for gamers is the gameplay in a game.
But does this journalist address gameplay in video games or is he more interested in some cultural facets like those coming with a story?
Gamers shall not bear the responsibility for events they are not responsible of.
Instead of removing the name gamer that names players who are not responsible for this scandal, why not name properly those responsible for it?