I think all this just proves that the videogame industry are even bigger pussies than Hollywood.
They make jokes on this level all the time in the Golden Globes and oscars and worse and yes you get your angry idiots like Will Smith who slapped a guy for it last year but most of the time they sit there and take it, fake laugh or whatever and nobody whines online.
I think gamers are just a nerdy version of that and those gamers are the problems with gaming. They take everything way too seriously.