If you're fortunate enough not to know, Gamergate is the misogynist hate group of the video game world.
For a hate group originally focused on video games, anger over a comedy movie for starring women might seem ridiculous. But at its core, Gamergate is about a toxic male sense of ownership over geek culture.
Any reasonable person can look at video games and see that we don't represent women well.
Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.
Gamergate was the proto-alt right.
For me, especially running for office, being on Twitter is a fundamental part of my job.
I think there is a war on women in technology.
Anyone can go to 8chan, a website entirely for Gamergaters. You can read what they post about me and other women. It's not just casual sexism, it's angry, violent sexism.
The tech industry has a strong bias towards technical solutions to social problems.
The main thing Twitter needs to focus on are implementing its rules more uniformly. If outing a transgender woman is against Twitter's rules, that needs to be implemented every time.
It is not a secret that I am a feminist and I have more liberal views and a lot of these GamerGaters have more right-wing views.
There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.
The cost of speaking out is so high for women, I understand why most decide not to.
Let's not glamorize abuse.
Gamergate taught me that I was stronger than I knew that I was.
There are some men that are very threatened by the fact that women play games nowadays.
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.
I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I faced as a woman in my career to really open up my eyes.
With my company, Giant Spacekat, I was very angry about the lack of games that portrayed women positively in the video game industry, so I launched my own studio, gave a lot of very talented women jobs, and we made some of the most awesome, empowering games in the business.
I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.
