Well, the first thing I'll say is this whole situation and political and culture war infighting that's been happening in gaming culture for years now is very unfortunate, it's made gaming culture a lot less fun than it used to be.
Now as for Gamergate, that was when things really came to a head and the whole thing honestly made my head spin and after a while I simply tried to tune it out, but correct me if I'm wrong, the whole thing was over a female game developer, Zoe Quinn, sleeping with certain game journalists in exchange for favorable coverage of her game, right? Is that not something worth getting upset over? That game journalists would do something so sleazy and dishonest and why is this Zoe Quinn person supposed to be a hero to admire when she would use her body in order to get ahead in the industry? That's also sleazy and dishonest behavior.
The fact that so many gaming journalist websites were so quick to yell sexism and misogyny at the drop of a hat definitely makes it seem like they were trying to cover their ass after being caught doing something bad.
So I was always very skeptical of the labeling GG a "hate group" and so on, remember that terrible Law and Order episode about it? It wasn't enough to make an episode where maybe someone takes online harassment too far and someone gets hurt, no, they had to depict gamers as a literal ISIS like group, just hysterical, ridiculous nonsense.
Now with all that said though, the problem we have in the present day is thanks to things like Twitter and the general interconnected world we live in, it's impossible to have level headed discussions about these things because trolls will always seize an opportunity to troll and harass people, whether they really care about what it's over or just want to do it "for the lulz" or people who do care but can't control their temper and let the harassment fly, I'm sure Zoe Quinn got hit with online harassment and that's unfortunate.
It's the same thing with Anita Sarkeesian, I don't like her nor do I like or agree with what's she said with her Tropes vs Women video series, but because people harassed her suddenly she was taken a lot more seriously, imagine if during the days of heated debate over Jack Thompson Twitter existed and people used it as a platform to send death threats to him, suddenly his message of "gamers are violent" would have been taken a lot more seriously with people literally threatening to kill him.
I think simply people can't differentiate between trolls and people who have legit opinions and grievances, trolls are an unfortunate constant of the internet and people need to learn to ignore them.
One thing's for sure, gaming journalism is more or less dead, when they decided to throw gamers under the bus rather than tackle the issue in a even handed way that was certainly not right and I've stopped visiting almost all of these websites and I almost never read reviews anymore, just follow the general online buzz about a game.