I have always considered Social Justice Warriors to be reformist libs to my right and attack them only on those grounds.

I've had (and have) all sorts of bad ideas but this isn't one of them. Was too busy organizing IRL during gamergate to know about it. Had the vague impression that there was something going with sexism in video games, correctly surmised it was fash in origin/trajectory. It was in the context of a larger misogynist resurgence that I had personally been aware of for over 10 years prior so I saw in that context, rather than in the online context as others here. I've had to watch/listen/read multiple "explainers" to now have a grasp on the story there.