[Opinion] Maturity in GG / SocJus, and how Penny Arcade's history fits in

A weird thread was posted and then deleted about Penny Arcade and SJWs, how their stance might seem inconsistent. In between the shitstirring I think there was a worthwhile point to be made, so I'm making it.

Why is Penny Arcade so sheepish despite their history with SJWs?
 

PA has been the story of two guys growing up with their audience through their alter-egos, including marriage and kids. Especially after the Child's Play charity, PAX conventions, they went from being the cool uncles to being the dads themselves. PA's rebellious facade has softened into a schtick, an outlet for people who have mostly settled down and given up on that stuff, both them and their original audience. For example look at this recent dad-themed comic. Nothing wrong with that.

In that age bracket, the SJWs are the soccer moms of their generation, the middle age tumblrinas. They still think they're fighting for the Big Themes, but really, they're just being overprotective panicky brats. The hair coloring, the justice blogging, the twitter outrage, it's them clinging on to what little punk they have left in their otherwise very bland, comfortable, average lives, where a Game of Thrones episode can make or ruin their day. Hyperbole does the rest, drawing in well-meaning people who take the narrative at face value.

The overlap between PA and SJWs is not surprising, nor PA's reluctance to plant flags. There is always the pressure to make things more family friendly as your audience expands and ages. There was a recent comment here that made similar observations with regards to reddit and 4chan being gentrified.

Teenagers have always wondered why adults are so boring, while adults always laugh at how stupid everyone was at that age. But there's a flipside to this too, and this is for the young crowd here. The kinds of adults that make teenagers' lives especially miserable... your generation too will spawn them. They never look quite the same as they did last time, but the underlying patterns and drives remain the same. They're equally hard to deal with as before, because they're us.

It's a trope that perpetual childhood is a millenial trait, but I think it's more accurate to say it's a trait of this millenium, affecting all ages. Look at all the people who are at the center of this controversy, and I mean the "journalists". It's not teenagers, it's middle aged people, and they're throwing tantrums and running to the headmaster. Having a quarter-life crisis, because they never grew up.

TL;DR: PA's arc is about how to preserve your childhood in the face of inevitable adulthood. SJWs are people who refuse to grow up but fake maturity. Superficially similar but fundamentally different.