If it is your opinion that the "core demographic" for video games is still idiot men that are scared that their video games are getting ruined by a "social agenda" being pushed by bloggers then you clearly don't actually know anything about the actual demographics of who buys and plays video games.
It's especially glaring that you're taking your cues from the always reliable and completely "objective journalism" practiced by the undead Breitbart and his posse of otherwise unemployable writers, who definitely have never pushed a social agenda of their own.
Seriously, your first pull quote from this scandalous conspiracy between gaming journalists reads "[p]eople are using your platform to harass a developer. Are you comfortable with that?" How does asking that question--especially considering Zoe Quinn has without question been harassed to a disgusting level--actually become telling "an Escapist editor how he should run his forums" without a pretty monumental leap in logic? If this is the pull quote you're featuring, it's so unconvincing in its level of collusion that I'm honestly quite surprised that there wasn't something at least a little more juicy that you could have shown out of context to make this at least look like a better conspiracy.
Why is it that you are so uncomfortable with a journalistic organization that covers "gaming and technology" and also talks about things that you consider a "social agenda"? Also, what gives you the qualification to deem what is and isn't "irrelevant" with regards to gaming journalism?
If you really want video games to be considered art, you have to consider that social issues will be addressed within them. That's a very large component of other arts, and these exact same social issues are a huge part of the movies, tv and music, and are mentioned by any real critic worth her salt and have been for much, much longer than video games have been around. Why not video games, and why not video game critics?
I once wondered why there hasn't been a Pauline Kael or Lester Bangs of video gaming criticism, and I have come to the conclusion that too many of the consumers are afraid of what might be said and have to look for any way possible to drown out what makes them uncomfortable. When that's the case, it's no longer an art, it's just a drug you use to not have to think about the actual world.