If you wanted GamerGate to end all you need to do is start a discussion with them. Hiding away and not facing it isn't going to fix it and will perpetuate it. Why not just go on one of their streams and actually explain yourself?

Well, their version of starting a discussion with me was a bunch of vile messages and threats about what they were going to do to me if I didn't start agreeing with them. This was while many of my friends in the industry were getting harassed by them much, much worse than anything I was seeing. It was also, oddly enough, during a month where my stories were getting more traffic than they ever have. So I disagree that it's my responsibility to "explain" myself to them so they stop their harassment campaigns. Besides, as they keep explaining, there is no leader, and no actual goals to the movement, so there's no reason to believe that any of it would ever end no matter what anyone does in response. They've set up a movement that doesn't even understand what it wants, so I'm not sure what spending my time engaging with them would do other then put myself at risk while taking time away from the things in my life that actually matter. The #1 thing I heard from my readers during the past few months is that I should have taken a more public stand against this sort of harassment earlier. That's been my personal failure, and it's something I learned to my shame. The one good thing that GamerGate has done, and it's something that people have been trying to do for a while, is to make it so that it's impossible to ignore the utterly terrible way we treat women in this industry. By being this nasty and this hateful to so many people in the industry for so long they've given this aspect of video games huge mainstream exposure. Everyone from law enforcement to industry groups are paying attention, which is a huge step forward. Gamergate has given the issues of harassment in games the sort of platform that was unthinkable last year. We have women on mainstream news programs talking about their experiences dealing with the death threats and abuse that come from being a Gamergate target, and people are listening. The human cost of Gamergate has been crazy, but the movement involves people who have been threatening prominent women in games for years. It began as a way to harass and intimidate a single female developer. Its goal is to hurt people, and it explicitly rejects the idea of responsibility for its own actions. Members of the movement have posted lie after lie about people, they've organized abuse against people they don't like, and they try to silence voices that disagree. The idea that it's my responsibility to "explain" something and then they'll all stop? I think we both know that's kind of a silly suggestion. No one is hiding away and "not facing it," we're just treating it as what it is: A violent movement that deals in hate, threats, and harassment.