Imagine a conversation that goes like this:

Feminist: I’d like to talk about the issues that trouble women today.

Anti-feminist: No, you’re clearly a man-hater trying to impose a female supremacy.

Feminist: When did I ever say that?

Anti-Feminist: I’ve seen lots of tweets, blogs, pictures, and articles written by people claiming to be feminist that express horrible things like wishing all men to die or celebrating news stories of women cutting a man’s penis because he cheated on her, and stuff like that. Clearly ALL feminists are despicable man-hating feminazis.

Feminist: Well, I admit there are some extremes in our group, like in any group, and we DO need to deal with them, but that does not, in any way, diminish the validity of the points we’re trying to make. So I’d like to talk–

Anti-Feminist: No, we’re ONLY talking about those man-hating feminist. Nothing else is important, and nothing said by man-hating feminists could possibly be relevant, only the fact that they are man-hating feminists is of any relevance.

Feminist: But there are far too many issues regarding the treatment of women worldwide that NEED to be addressed. Yes, we DO plan to address the violent fringe groups within our community as well. In fact, I think we can all agree that everyone here has the intellectual capacity to do BOTH at the same time.

Anti-Feminist: NO NO NO NO! WE’RE ONLY TALKING ABOUT THE
MAN-HATING FEMINISTS AND THAT’S THAT!!!!

Now change the words “feminist” for “gamersgate” and “man-hating feminist” with “misogynist man-child”, and you get a pretty accurate picture of what gamersgate has looked like for the past few months.