To be entirely honest, I'm really sick of people (especially other women) being judgy when you like "girly" things, or assuming that means you're "childish" or some other made up bs that has fuck all to do with you as a person and everything to do with deeply entrenched ideas of what women "should" be like. It's just…

Those are fair critiques of the term, I agree. I find the term most useful with respect to talking about the multiplicity of oppressions and the problems with thinking of oppression in hierarchical ways (i.e., gender oppression is worse than racial oppression, etc.). However, you are right that the distinction between…

I'm not really sure how to connect the two points you made. One seems to be condescending and aggressive against my idea that many (if not most) of the great games we got came about because of consoles (Mario series and dozens of others). These games that you may call "retard games" have expanded the tent for gamers…