#GTFO MEANING SERIES#
And the media critic Anita Sarkeesian, host of the current web series “Tropes vs. “No Princess in the Castle,” a feature-length documentary about the experiences of female gamers and developers, is in the works. In addition to “GTFO,” which tackles issues like images of women in video games and the low numbers of female programmers, there’s “GameLoading: Rise of the Indies,” about indie game developers, which had its premiere in San Francisco on Thursday. The treatment of women in gaming - as players, developers or cultural critics - is being explored in new documentaries, some begun long before GamerGate and inspired by events and conditions that have been well known for years within the gaming world. While online harassment in the video game industry has made headlines of late - most notably, with the so-called GamerGate controversy, in which anonymous players threatened to rape and murder the game developers Zoe Quinn and Brianna Wu, among others - “GTFO” (an acronym for an obscene dismissal) makes the case that these are not isolated incidents, yelled or texted today and gone tomorrow. Haniver’s story of online harassment is one of the creepier moments in the film, which has its premiere March 14 at the South by Southwest Film Festival. “One guy said he was going to impregnate me with triplets and then force me to have a late-term abortion,” she said in a phone interview. Several have threatened to rape and kill her. You must be fat, male players tell her, or ugly, or a slut, or own a lot of cats. Haniver has endured all sorts of abuse as a female gamer. “You’re useless when your hymen is broken,” he tells her. One player takes potshots at women - they are poor game players, they can’t drive - before commanding Ms. But when her fellow online combatants discover that the shooter in their midst is, to their chagrin, female, the comments commence. In the documentary “GTFO,” Jenny Haniver is relaxing in her living room in Wisconsin, thumbs on her Xbox controller, settling in for another session of Call of Duty.
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