Lot of connections can be drawn between what happened to Kathy Sierra, what's currently happening with GamerGate, and many other situations
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The large scale mob-like attacks are frightening and strange, but there's also a fluid gradation between those and individualized attacks
like the 11 thousand word tirade against Emily Gould—a hateful, incoherent mess that could have been a rallying cry that failed
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It boils down to: Women don't deserve success. Women don't deserve fame. Women don't deserve platforms. You got there by being a whore.
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and there's of course a million other things, besides the obsession with female sexuality and the details of the target's intimate life—
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—like the demand "not to feed the trolls" or the policing of "the truth" (see e.g. what KS had to say about the evidence of who doxed her)—
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—or how any hint of anger immediately delegitimizes the target.
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But in any case. You start to see patterns. When people are bad, they are predictably bad, across many industries and subcultures.
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What we can learn from these incidents is how and why being attacked can be scary. We can learn compassion, empathy, solidarity.
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And we can also learn how to sniff out misogynistic shitbags and see them for what they are.
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Have a good night and try not to enable horrible people.
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