Gender politics which happens to affect a game designer isn't, though; it's immediately understandable to anyone in the general population, and will likely pop up on many other more "general-interest" sites like Reddit. (And, like the guideline says, could be covered on the TV news.)

I take the "spirit of the law" of the HN guidelines as being not that there are certain topics that are bad to talk about on HN (in est, a blacklist); but rather that HN is mainly for discussing things that go "over the heads" of the general population (a whitelist.) HN brings together people who crave other knowledgeable folks willing to discuss subjects usually lost on the people around them.

HN is a respite from the inanity of general news/trivia/discourse, and to ensure it stays that way, we have to be willing to forgo the usual logic of "this instance of [general topic] affects one of our own! Surely [general topic] itself is now on-topic for any manner of discussion or debate." It seems to invade, and eventually dilute, every community that doesn't specifically have a rule about "these are the subjects we talk about here."

An instructive parallel: in my experience, every knitting community has an entire sub-board to talk about pregnancy. What expertise do knitters have to contribute on the subject of pregnancy? Wouldn't these people be better off going to a pregnancy forum, where actual expert knowledge can be aggregated? They're having the same conversations happening in every other pregnancy subforum of every other tangentially-related community, instead of getting together to have one conversation.

What special expertise does HN have on gender politics?