Shorter version, if you just want the list of the list of what she says are "Eight things developers can do to make games less shitty for women", paraphrased from my notes... not that a lot of this pertain to action games and probably make more sense if you're thinking about first and third-person shooters, the Arkham…

I am a male in his 30's and this idea that I need the same stuff from my childhood is weird. I AM NOT EIGHT YEARS OLD ANYMORE. I like different stuff than I did when I was 8. I don't need the stuff I liked in the 1980's endlessly recycled. I can find new stuff!

The American system is pretty good to work out the middle ground over time. That is what will happen in the next 10 years ago. A populist party could work right now (and in a lot of senses it already does), but I believe will inevitebly lose to blue dog democrats again. (Remember http://xkcd.com/1127/large/ ?)

True. Some Swiss polsci nerds developped a tool called smartvote that allows to visually compare politicians. Here is Barack Obama's Smartspider:

No, Barack Obama is not a socialist, he is not even a social democrat. Take that from an activist in an actual (and successful) European socialist party.

here's my sex spreadsheet