You don't have to answer this publicly or at all, but maybe you should just ignore your asks/the internet for a while? There's a thread on you in /co/ and instead of being anything constructive like it intended to be, its just a gamergate circlejerk which

Ha! No, I didn’t know. But that does explain some of the notes I’ve been getting.

I dunno, I think I can remember a time when respectable discussions could happen in /co/… but since then it’s become a gigantic version of The Eltingville Club. A rather horrifying amount of relentless nerd antagonism… Too much for my old bones.

(and yet there’s still a stupid part in my brain that’s cheering “hoorayyyy! I’m being talked about!”)