It's see no evil, hear no evil with toxic male gamers - whose every whim and adolescent fantasy has been catered to for decades.
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 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.
In stopping Gamergate, the men who dominate it - not just women - must address the culture that created Gamergate.
It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.
Even when the nation's leaders acknowledge tech issues, details are lacking.
We need to invest in telecommunication infrastructure with redundancies to combat denial of service attacks.
We need to introduce civil liability for companies that ship products with reckless security vulnerabilities.
There's a common misconception about running for office. People think it's dreadful, morally compromising work. But I've found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.
There's a common personality type to software developers - one I certainly fall into. We're more comfortable staring at a screen than staring into someone's eyes. Engineers can be brilliant in the workplace, and something less-than-brilliant everywhere else.
Before I ran for office, I ran a game studio.
Justice for all does not apply when women use the Internet.
Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.
It's sad when 'Grand Theft Auto' has more consequences for criminal behavior than real life.
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.
I am a software engineer, a popular public speaker, and an expert in the Unreal engine.
Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.
My capacity to feel fear has worn out, as if it's a muscle that can do no more.
Software increasingly defines the world around us.
