Recently, the film that will be talking about girl gamers, GTFO, has been fully funded as was announced on their Facebook page. This comes as great news to me, after having just learned only two days ago that they still needed over $4,000.00 left to make their goal. Shannon Sun-Higginson, it’s creator, promises the movie will cover women gamers including people in the industry, people playing the games, and even some history of the game.
There is actually still 7 days left to go for the pledge, and that’s pretty exciting since I was wondering if it was possible to get 4,000 bucks before that time was up. I guess now all that’s left is to see how her film turns out.
One thing is for sure. This film is something that will get people talking – positive and negative. Comments have been spreading on articles about the film like wild fire. Just look at the comments under Kotaku.com, with some people saying things like tg_smith:
“…Sexism, Racism, Homophobia, and other shit are all part of the same poison that plagues online gaming.
There’s gotta be a line in the sand somewhere. Throwing around swear words is one thing, but once those lose all meaning and impact, moving up to the next offensive thing is not acceptable whatsoever.”
And StrawHat:
“Odd, my wife plays games online and has never mentioned being harrassed every single time she logs in. When we played WoW, she generally got along with all of our male guild mates better than I ever did. Not saying that sexism isn’t a problem, but either you’re greatly exaggerating or our server and guild was some kind of exception.”
It seems that there are all different views, and a lot of those on all different type of games.
Published: May 3, 2013 03:01 am