Quotes About Gamergate

Gamergate is ostensibly about journalistic ethics. Supporters say they want to address conflicts of interest between the people that make games and the people that support them. In reality, Gamergate is a group of gamers that are willing to destroy the women who have invaded their clubhouse.

I think Gamergate is just a symptom of a disease: a $90 billion global industry that was built by men for men.

I saw the GamerGate controversy as a way to expand 8chan. I wanted to unseat 4chan and to me it didn't matter how it happened.

I've rarely talked about Obama's share of the blame for the rise of the alt-right and Gamergate.

Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear - rightly - that they will be targeted and harassed.

I believe GamerGate is at its core a positive movement that fights against obvious corruption in journalism and the tech industry.

GamerGate is really a sexist temper tantrum. That's kind of a silly, funny way of putting it, but it's kind of what it feels like, right? They're going after and targeting women who are trying to make changes in the industry. They're attacking anyone who supports women.

The main lesson I took from Gamergate is that asking the status quo to do the right thing doesn't work.

My big lesson from Gamergate is asking the men in charge to do the right thing does not work. So we need women, we need people of color in positions of power not just in the game industry but at social media and tech companies and in Congress.

Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.

Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I've had hundreds and hundreds of threats to my life on Twitter's platform.

Gamergate should have been a time of reckoning for the gaming community, which had long been rife with sexism and misogyny. It wasn't.

GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.

I still strongly feel that a lot of people who participated in Gamergate, who participated in this sort of thing, are doing so because they go into it with - they'll believe the version of events that fits their world view.

Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women's reputations.

If Gamergate had happened to somebody else, years earlier, I probably would've been on the wrong side.

Prosecuting Gamergate is not about justice for me or the women of Giant Spacekat. It's about introducing consequences into the equation for men that treat harassing women like a game.

Gamergate isn't the problem - it's a symptom of an industry that is deeply sexist and unable to understand it.

To stand up to GamerGate, that's my choice. I can't make that choice for the women I work with.

In some ways, the real damage of Gamergate is pushing the public's idea of sexism so far to the extreme, that changes in the professional sphere seem unimportant.

GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.

In stopping Gamergate, the men who dominate it - not just women - must address the culture that created Gamergate.

Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.

GamerGate-promoted outlets fail at grown-up journalistic ethics, and they also fail at the cheap knockoff brand of GamerGate brand ethics, too.