First up it's a comedy about an inexperienced feminist journalist who 'is forced' to get a job in the porn industry. She, of course, knocks it out of the park and discovers a little about herself, and humanity, along the way. It's got Harvey Keitel and Diedrich Bader in it under the talented Elizabeth Gillies's lead.
It's a complete send up of the tropes we, around here at least, generally associate with women gaming journo types and yet still manages to come off as a light hearted situational comedy.
I'm not sure if the community will take to it well enough but it's far better than the SVU "They levelled up" episode from almost a decade ago and better than anything to be written or produced by the anti-Gamergate side before or since.
Just a joshing jab at everything in the opinion pieces industry at the moment.
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Sounds like a typical 'empowerment' (or whatever phrase parallels 'coming of age') comedy, just with a premise adjacent to the presstitute joke. Of note, the protagonist merely gets employed by a porn magazine. It doesn't seem that she sells out her body as one might guess.
From imdb:
I only saw the first 15 minutes of it but it seemed like a perfectly normal late 80's/early 90's set-up for a payoff for the lead.
I might get around to seeing it all at some point but I don't expect a Working Girl or Thelma and Louise movie when it's said and done. Perhaps, at a big push, a Clueless copy but it is what it is.
Semi-Gamergate relevant.
The lead is playing against some kid online and has a great putdown within the first 10 minutes, worth it for that alone :)