Your comment about "treating women as people" is blatantly false. Generally, its the opposite. They treat women like infants, incapable of deciding things for themselves, or use women as a shield to hide behind when their corrupt practices are called into question.

Was Nathan Grayson sticking up for women when he entered into a conflict of interest with Zoe Quinn, and at least 8 other people?

Was Arthur Gies treating women like people when he decided for everyone that attractive women was a bad thing? I didn't know sticking up for women meant going back to Puritan ways where showing any skin was to be punished and shunned.

Was Ben Kuchera defending feminists when he harassed multiple people, attempting to get them fired because he disagreed with them, or when he wrote an article promoting blatantly false sexual harassment allegations against Brad Wardell without giving him a chance to defend himself(which led to his kid getting bullied in school and his family threatened)? He never apologized for that, by the way, even though several other publications did. He tried to destroy a man's life and showed no remorse. How about when Ben Kuchera tried to get Chris Mancil fired for, gasp, even linking to an article by Ben Kuchera!

Was Leigh Alexander helping women by engaging in doxxing, threatening to use her power to blacklist developers or get people fired, or when she entered into no less than 10 known conflicts of interest and bragged about having an agenda, or how about when she encouraged people to break the IGN and Gamespot terms of use? How about when she admitted to leaking her book online for free after taking the publisher's money, robbing them of sales? Or how about when she lied about being a part of GameJournoPros?

How about when GamerGate exposed the person harassing Anita Sarkeesian and Jason Scheier twisted it into a narrative blaming GG on everything anyway? Or when he lied about a survey he polled on twitter, claiming the results said that most people thought review scores were the problem with games journalism, when the reality is that publisher-journalists relations had gotten over three times as many votes? What did that have to do with women? Or when he claimed he had never been contacted for comment prior to the GamesJournoPros leak, but there is proof on twitter that he was?

How about when Kirk Hamilton wrote favorably about Diablo 3's DRM while his website was conveniently running a massive Diablo 3 ad campaign, only to years later, when the DRM itself had been pulled, change his opinion? Did Diablo 3's DRM somehow help women?

How about when Patricia Hernandez wrote about the false rape accusations against Max Tempkin, claiming he spent too much time defending himself and not enough time contemplating that he might have done something wrong...apparently someone falsely accused of rape should just admit it and accept ridicule rather than defend themselves. Was that helping women in any way?

Or how about every single journalist who took part in the collective "Gamers are dead" articles? How exactly were they championing women? What about all the ones that collectively held up the ridiculous "medievalPOC" blog post as a way to try and pressure a developer to insert black people in a game set in a region and time period in which there were no black people, passively implicating the developer was racist by not doing so? This is a blog post, by the way, which believes in the hilariously racist "one drop rule."

Was all of that to help women? Was ANY of that written to help women or treat them like people? Or was it really just a bunch of unethical bullshit that the journalists tried to cover up by claiming the people accusing them of wrongdoing were misogynist?

By the way, the vast majority of death threats sent in EITHER direction (either towards people GamerGate don't like, or towards members of GamerGate itself) have either been flat out confirmed to be third party trolls, or its very likely. The actual death threats sent from either side are so small as to be indistinguishable from random internet bullshit.

If you think I'm lying about any of the stuff I posted here, you are free to look it up yourself. Here is a database of many of the unethical journalistic practices that GG has been tracking.

The public opinion of GG is rather negative, and this is owed to the fact that people get their opinion from the media, and the media is the one GG is going after. Who is going to write favorably about a group that is exposing their corrupt business?

And then of course people repeat the lies often enough and it becomes "truth." GamerGate isn't perfect, and never will be. Its a random assortment of all sorts of people from all over the globe. There are bound to be a few assholes among them. But the people trying to paint the whole thing as misogynistic, or a hate group, or "gamers are worse than ISIS" (thats a quote from a journalist btw) are so incredibly corrupt and blatantly wrong as to be almost parodies.

These are the facts. Among the biggest "celebrities" in GamerGate are a gay journalist(who received death threats and threatening stuff mailed to his home for being involved in GG), a feminist professor, and a female game developer who had coverage of her game pulled for being sympathetic to GamerGate. If this is a hate group meant to help heterosexual white men, as so often claimed, then these facts should not be true, and yet they are.

I may have come off as rather belligerent in this comment, but I'm sick of having GamerGate accused of bullshit. There are plenty of things GamerGate can be criticized for. Its easy! They focus on the "SJW" aspect too much when not a lot of journalistic stuff is going on. Boom, accurate criticism right there. Gamergate occasionally loses focus. Easy criticism. But "targeting women?" Complete and total bullshit that is completely unsupported by any evidence.