more scorched-earth activity like doxxing and death threats against people who had the temerity to voice an opinion that someone didn't like
Oops, thought you were talking about anti-GG for a second.
I'll just leave this here: http://gamergateharassment.tumblr.com/
The attitude that women are worse than men means that men being more like women makes them an object of derision
Your bias towards women is showing, even if you don't consciously realize that you have it. Men acting like women or being accused of acting like women is a form of derision. Women acting like men or being accused of acting like men is a form of derision. Compassion is positive in women, and negative in men. Assertiveness is positive in men, and negative in women. There is no attitude that women are worse than men. There is no attitude that men are worse than women. There is an attitude of sticking to your gender role and striving to be the embodiment of it while shaming those more towards the middle than you are, or with more crossover than you.
Solutions are obvious if one only has the optical power to observe them over the horizon. -- K.A. Arsdall