The Democratic Party tends to have this hypereducated ruling-class mentality, and we need to realize that's not making us connect with a lot of voters.
I look at my own party, and I see that we've taken this technocratic, academic, elitist liberal class philosophy as far as it can go, and we got our butts kicked - and I don't know what else to do other than get involved myself.
I don't regret standing up to Gamergate at all.
The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.
The real question is whether or not the communities that rule the Internet can make their spaces safer for users, especially women and minorities.
The public will forgive you almost anything if you're honest about it.
Something that's hard for me, I remember being a child in the '80s and looking at this field. It was a field I wanted very much to go into, but I didn't see people who looked like me working in video games. You can't really be it if you can't see it.
I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.
GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.
Gamergate isn't the problem - it's a symptom of an industry that is deeply sexist and unable to understand it.
The truth is, the sexist behaviour that really holds women in games back doesn't come from the moustache-twirling cartoon villains of Gamergate. It's the sexist hiring practices of our journalistic institutions. It's the consistently over-sexualised designs we see.
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.
The truth is, the game industry is a really incredibly difficult place for women to work.
My dad is in Mississippi. He exited the Navy and made a ton of money as an entrepreneur.
My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.
Entrepreneurship is in my nature.
If you run a website where people can congregate, you have a moral responsibility to make sure that community is not harassed.
A lot of people don't know this about me but actually I started in politics.
I'm a reasonably accomplished journalist. I've worked as an investigative journalist, I've done crime beat stuff.
I love people that kind of have those life experiences that take them different places.
