GTFO: Get the F&#% Out

You need to keep an open mind while watching this documentary. Remember that people are just stating their opinions, and try to value them. I personally did not agree with all of the statements or world views portrayed, but still think it's important to hear them.

Unfortunately it is very easy as a guy and especially if you are a gamer to become infuriated by some of the arguments (or the mere sight of Anita Sarkeesian). But if you are able to get past that you might actually discover that there are many valid points being made.

I love gaming and video games and I think everyone should be able to enjoy them, man or woman. I would hate to be told I cannot do the thing I love because of my gender. That is why I think people should give this film a chance. Perhaps next time you meet a female gamer in lobby or forum you will think twice before casually making a sexist joke or comment.

On a technical level, this film is awful. The video and audio quality are absolutely horrendous. This is absolutely unacceptable for any film of any budget. So, why 4 stars then instead of 1 star? 2 for the actual content and another 2 for the editing, which I thought was decent. The animations were cute. If this movie were more well-presented I'd rate it higher, but I just can't look past the technical issues, I'm sorry. Avoid, you can find better videos on this topic on YouTube.

It's a documentary that demonizes gamers and is written with little to no knowledge of the medium. Very little is factual and it goes out of it's way to paint those who oppose said ideas as awful human beings. Not to mention it pretends to take offense for those who aren't offended. Steer clear at all costs

Firstly let's go with the data and science: the data show that -- per type of game played-- women harass as often as men, and women and men are harassed in gaming equally.

The peer reviewed work (dozens) shows boys and men prefer more highly competitive online games, and girls and women prefer more cooperative ones. You whine at that and what it means for people claiming that despite the major differences in biology between genders -- that men and women have to be identical -- but that doesn't change that men and women play on average very different types of online games

People playing highly competitive online games tend to have during game play heightened aggression. men and and women both do. It is just men play those types of games more often.

So the fact that some fraction of people trying to kill you on line might be saying "suck my *%)# and die" in the chat of call of duty, and others might be nicer in co-op game, does NOT reflect some greater staement about society and gender. OK?

Really the culture of offense went over the top with "gamer-gate" type nonsense. Highly competitive game play is just that, it includes all kinds of nonsense. "There isn't an iota of evidence that this is sexual harassment.

The one star reviews are written by the same misogynistic, small minded, sexually frustrated males that tormented some of the women covered in this documentary. Absolutely shameful how uneducated men will go out of their way to abuse and silence the voices of intelligent women.

Watch this movie, share it, this story needs to be told from a woman's perspective, not from that of a sexually frustrated passive aggressive oedipal male.

Anita Sarkeesian specifically has generated some of the most insightful, well researched and well timed criticism of modern culture, specifically into how video game culture denigrates women in their portrayal but also how the 'Gamer' community can subject women to a hideous level of abuse. The more this story gets told, the more something will be done to rectify this deplorable dynamic. One can only hope.