How did you feel that, despite many women such as yourself supporting it, people like Anita Sarkeesian were still calling it a sexist/misogynistic hate movement?

There were people that clearly took the opportunity to use the GamerGate situation as a platform to gain more exposure. When someone sends out tweets that are hateful or derogatory about a group of people, one can hardly be surprised when those within that group react negatively. It hardly seems fair to say that a group is harassing you when you are baiting them on a daily basis. With that said threats of death/rape/violence are never acceptable. Troll organizations such as the GNAA very quickly saw opportunities for mischief within the GamerGate situation and there has been questionable behaviour on both sides. I don't believe that the people that support the #GamerGate hashtag do so because they are sexist or misogynist. There are a great many women that support GamerGate and it certainly seems bitterly ironic that those that within gaming that make a big song and dance about supporting women are so willing to ignore, harass or denounce women that support GamerGate, even dismissing them and labelling them as sockpuppets. It seems that because so many of the game journalists concerned are part of the same game journalist/critic/developer clique GamerGate has become part of the larger examination of the inclusion of feminist and social justice ideology that has recently become part of the wider sphere of gaming."

GamerGate does not hate women, nor is it anti-feminist (there are many feminists that support GamerGate myself included). However there are some women whose behaviour is disagreed with by some of those that support GamerGate, to disagree with a woman in itself is not misogyny unless it is directly linked to her gender. Because some of the people whose behaviour GamerGate supporters have questioned happen to be female, and because those that ask politely and have moderate viewpoints are thrown right in with the trolls and the extremists, the media has been able to spin this narrative of a group of angry men, anti-feminists and MRAs that are utterly bent on destroying all the helpless women that ever thought about video games. I have always tried to speak from a moderate position of logic and fairness yet I am lumped right in with third-party trolls that are sending death threats to provoke a reaction. Often it has felt that it is not the views of women that matter to those within game journalism but rather a select group of women that have a members pass for the club. This is especially ironic as it is these people that are trying to paint gaming as a 'boys only club' that only women that behave a certain way can get into."