> One can make a very strong argument that the manosphere stuff is rooted in poor sexual attitudes of men that only got worse with tons of porn.

This has no bearing in reality. The "manosphere" is mostly neo-conservative guys who are sometimes even performatively against porn.

> Every other game has basically stripper-level female characters now days.

This used to be a lot more pervasive 20 years ago than now? Altogether with the "hip hop" thing, just feels like prejudiced, outdated arguments without data to back it up.