Try making a game where there's a threat of a man getting raped. Advertise that fact almost a year before it comes out. See the kind of reaction and sales you get.
If this was in a believable situation(because insert a man into the same situation and it's no longer believable), I don't think the reaction would be nearly as ridiculous because nobody would really care about a male character.
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