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Video Gamers From the '90s Have Turned Out Mostly OK (arstechnica.com)
A study reported on by Ars Technica indicates that video games, much ballyhooed (alleged) source of mental, physical and psycho-social ills for the kids who spent a lot of time playing them, don't seem to have had quite as big a negative effect on those kids as the moral panic of the past few decades would have you believe. Instead, There didn't seem to be an association between the number of games the children reported owning and an increase in risk for conduct disorder. When examining depression among shoot-em-up players, there was evidence for increased risk before the researchers controlled for all the confounding factors, but not afterwards. Of course, there's a lot of data to go around in the several studies referred to here, and the upshot seems to both less exciting and less simple than "Video games are good, not bad!"
Well, Anita Sarkeesian did indirectly show that at least some of the gamers from the 90s didn't turn out okay, not that she intended this.
Yes, I do refer to both sides of GG.
She has some very good points though. It's funny to watch the videos with all the male characters having strategic butt coverings, but not female characters. I know lots of female gamers now so the sophomoric "I like to look at female butts" rationales for over sexualized female characters. \\
People overreact though, "raawr, she wants to change my game very slightly!" And GG had some very repulsive actors in it, they don't know how to debate so they decide to send threats.