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Gamergate isn't the problem - it's a symptom of an industry that is deeply sexist and unable to understand it.
- Brianna Wu
#Industry
#Problem
#Sexist
#Understand
It doesn't matter how many women we get into game production. If the only people evaluating the work we do continue to be men, women's voices will never be heard.
- Brianna Wu
#Game
#Men
#People
#Women
#Work
I love video games dearly.
- Brianna Wu
#Games
#I Love
#Love
#Video Games
#Video
The Internet has done so much for so many. It allows women and minorities to have access to education, training, and information that sometimes isn't available to them for whatever reason.
- Brianna Wu
#Education
#Internet
#Training
#Women
Ordinarily, I develop videogames with female characters that aren't girlfriends, bimbos and sidekicks.
- Brianna Wu
#Characters
#Develop
#Female
#Girlfriends
If you don't know what Gamergate is, my God, do I envy you.
- Brianna Wu
#Envy
#God
#Know
#You
I still quite enjoy watching Fox News because I think it makes me think through my arguments and make sure I'm on the right side.
- Brianna Wu
#Enjoy
#Me
#News
#Right
#Watching
The first game I remember being ridiculously passionate about was Super Mario Bros. 2. It was the first game where you could play as Princess Peach. It wasn't just a game where the boys had their adventure. Peach was in the game and she was so powerful there.
- Brianna Wu
#Adventure
#Game
#Princess
#Remember
#She
I don't want to be a hardware engineer. That seems like a terrible job.
- Brianna Wu
#Hardware
#Job
#Like
#Terrible
#Want
When I was a teenager, the most valuable American companies were in finance and manufacturing.
- Brianna Wu
#American
#Finance
#Manufacturing
#Most
To stand up to GamerGate, that's my choice. I can't make that choice for the women I work with.
- Brianna Wu
#Choice
#Stand Up
#Stand
#Women
#Work
I grew up listening to Rush Limbaugh and Sean Hannity, and it took me getting out into the real world and understanding what I faced as a woman in my career to really open up my eyes.
- Brianna Wu
#Eyes
#Listening
#Me
#Real
#World
Growing up as a queer child in Mississippi, I got my Nintendo in 1985, and I've been lost in this world ever since. When I was scared because my church said people like me were going to burn in hell, 'Final Fantasy,' 'Dragon Warrior' and 'Super Mario' offered a lifeboat.
- Brianna Wu
#Church
#Hell
#Lost
#Me
#World
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.
- Brianna Wu
#Game
#Justice
#Me
#Men
#Women
There's a real sense - that we have to get past on the left - that every person who voted for Trump is evil.
- Brianna Wu
#Evil
#Past
#Person
#Real
#Sense
There's a common misconception about running for office. People think it's dreadful, morally compromising work. But I've found the opposite is true. It made a better person and a better feminist. It forced me to take a hard look at my shortcomings.
- Brianna Wu
#Better
#Look
#Me
#True
#Work
It's see no evil, hear no evil with toxic male gamers - whose every whim and adolescent fantasy has been catered to for decades.
- Brianna Wu
#Every
#Evil
#Fantasy
#Gamers
#See
I have an unfortunate history with Ethan Ralph. Like many women in the game industry, I've been doxed by him multiple times.
- Brianna Wu
#Game
#History
#Industry
#Like
#Women
Entrepreneurship is in my nature.
- Brianna Wu
#Entrepreneurship
#Nature
It is not a secret that I am a feminist and I have more liberal views and a lot of these GamerGaters have more right-wing views.
- Brianna Wu
#I Am
#Liberal
#More
#Right-Wing
#Secret
I am a programmer. If I write code, I don't evaluate the results by what I hope the code will be. I evaluate it by what happens when I compile it. I evaluate it by results.
- Brianna Wu
#Happens
#Hope
#I Am
#Results
#Will
Sometimes I speak out on women in tech issues.
- Brianna Wu
#Issues
#Out
#Sometimes
#Speak
#Women
For any prosecutor, a decision to show leniency in sentencing must be weighed against multiple factors. Do they show remorse for their actions? Are they a threat to the public and law enforcement? Do they intend to contribute to society?
- Brianna Wu
#Decision
#Law Enforcement
#Law
#Society
For a hate group originally focused on video games, anger over a comedy movie for starring women might seem ridiculous. But at its core, Gamergate is about a toxic male sense of ownership over geek culture.
- Brianna Wu
#Anger
#Culture
#Hate
#Video Games
#Women
The truth is, you cannot run a political campaign like a tech startup. Technology is a field that fetishizes disruption. The old ways are suspect, and we place an almost irrational trust on new tools. That's fine for developing games, but it was a failing playbook for politics.
- Brianna Wu
#New
#Politics
#Technology
#Trust
#Truth
My mom bought a computer in the '80s to do accounting, and she was so smart at computers that we spent all our time with them. My childhood was sitting on the floor of her office and figuring out how to program with my mom.
- Brianna Wu
#Accounting
#Childhood
#Computers
#Mom
#Smart
#Time
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