Brianna Wu Quotes

Trolls online are constantly giving you sexist comments.

Prosecuting Gamergate is not about justice for me or the women of Giant Spacekat. It's about introducing consequences into the equation for men that treat harassing women like a game.

Most members of Gamergate, the alt-right movement best known for harassing women in the game industry, operate under a veil of anonymity.

Gamergate is a criminal operation to harass women.

GamerGate is about harassing, threatening and silencing women. Started that way, has been that way all along. Dont pretend otherwise.

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.

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.

There are few people I can talk to about the worst parts of what happened during Gamergate.

I get apologies from Gamergaters pretty regularly saying: 'I didn't think you were a real person.'

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 is really a sexist temper tantrum. That's kind of a silly, funny way of putting it, but it's kind of what it feels like, right? They're going after and targeting women who are trying to make changes in the industry. They're attacking anyone who supports women.

There's a toxicity within gaming culture, and also in tech culture, that drives this misogynist hatred, this reactionary backlash against women who have anything to say, especially those who have critiques or who are feminists.

I think what a lot of women in the game industry saw with Gamergate is they saw if they came forward, help was not going to come.

The first week of Gamergate, I didn't sleep or eat at all.

Unfortunately, I have the equivalent of 7 PhDs in harassment on Twitter. As one of the primary targets of Gamergate, I've had hundreds and hundreds of threats to my life on Twitter's platform.

Since Gamergate, many women I know are reluctant to speak publicly on gender issues, because they fear - rightly - that they will be targeted and harassed.

If Gamergate had happened to somebody else, years earlier, I probably would've been on the wrong side.

GamerGate and what it's been doing, is wrong.

Gamergate has grown into a hate group that threatens the stability of the $60 billion a year game industry.

Gamergate taught me that I was stronger than I knew that I was.

As anyone who follows me on Twitter will know, I'm fairly robust in my views on there. I get next to nothing in the way of trolling. Most women I know who regularly come close to expressing an opinion get trolled constantly. This is a men-on-women issue. Guys are pretty much doing it to the girls.

In the sport itself it's fine, but online I have had constant sexist comments saying women are not as good as men.

Gamergate gave birth to a new kind of celebrity troll, men who made money and built their careers by destroying women's reputations.

A man might actually brush off vulgar tweets that come to him. Women are likely to be affected by it.

Entering public life as a woman - be it as a politician, journalist, expert or activist - makes you the target of the most sinister threats, abuse and language.