What would gamers say if they knew that police told women to avoid game stores the same way they avoid frat houses? What you don’t hear is the police telling women to stay away from gaming communities for their own safety. In every discussion of online harassment you will find men telling women to call the police. The officer sighs, “We’d have a lot less work if women just stayed away from dangerous, psychopathic losers.” I look at the evidence in front of me. “Is this like that WaterGame thing?” asks the officer. It is 2015 and I am reporting the harassment to the RCMP. Three years later I win a precedent-setting human rights case against him.ĭo people actually believe this drivel? I don't get it. The owner refuses to expel the creep and fires me instead. If he touches you on the street, then you can call us.” The officer hangs up. When no one is in the store, he traps me against a wall and rubs his genitals against me. A man at my game store has been sexually harassing me, talking about how much fun he would have raping me. W-why is she interspersing her article with her rape fantasies? Were you drinking? I’m not filing a report for some drunken slut.” The officer hangs up. When I am calm, I call the police and report the attack. I stumble into a bathroom in the lobby coffee shop and sob until I can’t breathe. If you go to the police, we’ll say you were never here.” The convention whirls around me like a nightmare kaleidoscope as I beg for help. After what feels like a lifetime, I stagger away, ripping his hand out of my jeans. A man’s hand is inside me, jabbing and painful. I wake up in a hotel bed I don’t remember. I am at Keycon, waiting for a friend to finish her Shadowrun game. “Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed! Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed!” The Warhammer 40K gamers at the table behind him take up the refrain. “Old enough to bleed, old enough to breed!” he chuckles in glee. “How old are you?” asks the balding, middle-aged man behind the counter. I examine their selection of dice and take them to the counter to pay. I am thirteen years old and in a game store for the first time. It's the same studio that made the first two movies, but neither of them had anything like this. You'd get banned from the shop for harassing customers if you said something even half as offensive. Why would they write a script literally out of r/thathappened? Real life isn't like the Internet, where people just say whatever they want without consequence. The guys who make these films play tabletop games. >neckbeard gamer 4: Is it hard to shuffle with my dick in your hands? >neckbeard gamer 2: Could you make me a sandwich? I got to this part before I had to shut it off: I just recently heard there was a third one and eagerly started watching it. They're quality low-budget movies that play on tabletop gamer stereotypes for some pretty solid comedy.
#GAMERS HAND OF FATE MOVIE#
Why the wild swing? Especially in a movie that is less campy.I don't know how many people here have seen The Gamers films, but I'd highly recommend the first two. I could be over-analyzing, but I think I was mainly disappointed in this because of the more clever, subtle approach to addressing the female gamer experience in Dorkness Rising. It just struck me as odd in general because clearly Leo respects female gamers and is often at his shop and doesn't tolerate that behavior - so where did the guy shouting these things get the idea that it's an environment this would be accepted in? Guys like him (and they do exist, just usually in the safety of the internet or in a group where they feel they have power to be this sort of caricature without repercussions) wouldn't last that long. There were no warnings from the staff, just an arbitrary, "That's it." The store staff should have at least made initial protests (", knock it off." "Remember you're on warning here.") rather than letting it go on for so long while she was clearly being harassed. As loud and disruptive as he was being, there should at least be grumbles from the other players. Secondly, adding to the weirdness is the non-reactions from everyone. (I guess you could argue because she was plausibly the hottest chick there, presumably without a "male protector" - but it just seemed weird she was the only one getting it.) And it was very stereotype of the Ugly Gamer. There were clearly other female gamers in the store, but she was the one being singled out. And not in a funny camp sort of way, but in a, "wut?" sort of way.įirst was what he was shouting. I mean, trust me, I've experienced some really misogynistic things as a female gamer, but the scene where Redhead was introduced (I have no issues with the other misogynistic bits, which were more natural) was.
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