GTFO: Get the F&#% Out

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.

The sole intent of this movie was to demonize. And it does a relatively good job at that. It paints the attackers (Gamers) as not humans with rational thoughts and feelings. But as nothing but hate mongers, in order to assassinate that identity and to shame any viewer who is a gamer to feel bad. It's a giant mess of rich kids fishing for sympathy from online hordes. It's Britney Spears crying about her jet being silver. instead of platinum. It's almost impossible to feel bad for the victims. They are literally complaining about smack talk in an online game where competitive environments are thriving. You know that guy that said "I got you sucka'" on Call duty. Apparently he was sexually harassing you and you didn't even know it. Online gaming is not your hugbox, stop pretending online gaming is preschool

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.

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.

I found this movie very confusing.

At first we're told that the video game industry doesn't cater to women but later we're told that 50% of gamers ARE women. These statements can't both be true and the fact that such a glaring plot hole made it out of the writer's room really took me out of the movie.

I also found the central performances lacking. Leigh Alexander appeared to be slurring her words and Anita Sarkeesian's acting (if you can call it that) was worse than Bart Baggett's.

If you want see a more realistic depiction of what it's like to be a woman in gaming, I'd recommend the Law & Order SVU episode, "Intimidation Game". They absolutely nailed it.