In an Indie game convention PAX East in 2012, Jenny Haniver recalled what happened one time when she tried to tell a male gamer about a nearby adversary. "Shut up, bitch," he said over and over again.
She created a website which documents and examines her experiences as a female gamer through a collection of transcribed audio clips recorded while she games online. Like many other women, she's frequently harassed by male gamers because of her gender and has been for years.
That's the arena Shannon Sun-Higginson steps into with
"GTFO," which is set to debut at this year's South By Southwest Film
Festival. Put into development long before Gamergate brought the issue of
misogyny in gaming into the national conversation, the film details the casual
abuse perpetrated by, in Sun-Higginson's words, a "vocal minority" of
predominantly white male gamers who are fearful of losing their place within
the industry.
Author: Yau Ga Sheng
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