He did get people clarifying things, which is why he back-tracked so much. The anonymous dickwads will come out for any article critical of anything video game related ever, we know this. Plus, he said he did research for that article, when he clearly did not...it's a knee jerk reaction that focuses on the negative.
The problem is, we say "FGC," as if it means something, but there's no official regulating body that can control what people do and say online. "FGC" is largely a constructed idea. The people who are really into it consider it an IRL social activity-- they get together to play and talk theory and improve. "FGC" is this thing people use to generically refer to that. But it's also used online to attach all the bad stories that come out of it to an entire group of people...which is really stupid if you think about it because no one is actually in control. It's not "the FGC is misogynist," it's that Aris (the guy from the SFxTekken web show) was being misogynist. Or a couple of individuals who are being misogynist or sexist or homophobic, etc. It's also not "the FGC likes making fun of guys till they cry," it's that the people who made that video like to. And then you have your assorted online riff-raff who agree with shitty behavior because they're anonymous trash. You can have the organizers of EVO speak out about the bad elements and the online shit heads will troll the fuck out of them, while most level headed IRL players will agree or ignore it.
To be fair then, the good stuff can only be attributed to individuals too. So when we ascribe the good and bad stuff to the individuals who do them, it looks less like an official organization that has a PR face to put forward and policies on new member recruitment and all this stuff. It's just a bunch of people who play games...some of whom are assholes, some of whom are cool. It's a niche and loosely tied together with tournaments, so it's easy to throw all these people in one spot, but it's not really that fair.
Please see it that way instead of buying into this Fox News level of reporting shit.