Any non-misogynist Gamergaters (are there any?) don't get "it" or the media. Maybe in some weird deconstruction of "equality," so long as you can provoke a response, you can plead "they were mean too!"

But, most people know who threw a punch first and who keeps throwing punches below the belt from their painful, awkward youth. The framing of the situation is not within the control of those who started the mess. Fewer and fewer 3rd parties give a shit about any morsel of authenticity in the game media ruse. More and more people are seeing people they know and/or care about get impacted and think, "Fuck GG's and anyone who stands anywhere near them." There's not enough time to separate the wheat and chaff - time to just burn the rotting pile.