An adult attempting to protect a 14-year-old girl has now become an example of sexism, that's just great.
That sort of claim does not even warrant such a response from the developers given how inane it sounds.
On the other hand, since it was mentioned in the article, I have a question that left me rather curious after playing it.
L I G H T _ S P O I L E R S _ from this sentence on,
So here goes: "I think we did an extraordinary job of creating strong characters - men, women, black, white, gay, straight...". By gay is he referring to the character of Bill? I remember he was quite distressed when he saw his partner had hanged himself, even more so than when Joel lost Tess early on by comparison. Is it possible that he was more than just his partner? It is never made explicitly clear, which is a certain type of minimalist storytelling that I appreciate immensely given how much can be inferred and left to the viewer's imagination, if so then bravo Naughty Dog.