The video game’s awful depiction of women is notorious, but that doesn’t make the latest installment’s transphobic jokes any less unsettling. Trigger warning.
Grand Theft Auto V / Rockstar Games
No one goes into Grand Theft Auto expecting political correctness. For the last fifteen years, the series -- produced by Rockstar Games -- has garnered a dedicated following as much because of its stunning scale as for its fierce commitment to being the very antithesis of political correctness. The game's misogyny is especially impressive. As my colleague Joe Bernstein wrote after playing the game's latest installment for 38 hours straight:
"Female characters, like almost every character in GTA V, are, with two relatively thin exceptions, pretty hateful people. We've got Michael's bitchy trophy wife; Franklin's bitchy, blathering, New Agey aunt; a bitchy fiancé straight from Apatowland; the usual panoply of strippers and prostitutes; and so on, forever. The counterargument: Everyone in this game is hateful, men and women."
