Gone home was a really interesting game that I don’t usually play. I enjoyed the game though because it was something different that I don’t usually play, going around the house opening different drawers and other things to find out what happened about the family that lived in the house. It kind of felt like a horror game at first but it’s not a horror, you’re just trying to open the truth about the queer teenager and how he and his family’s drama. The Riot Grrrl Movement was a good thing because it brought females together to make more punk music, art, etc. I love punk music and love that type of style, so I love it all and love the fact that women came together and got stronger by making new things. What Lorde was trying to say is that we need to break the silence and speak what’s in your heart, playing the game the teenager needed to tell his family what he’s been going through and what’s within his heart and not hold it back or hide it from everyone.
“Discussions of class differences occurred early on in contemporary feminism, preceding discussions of race. Diana Press published revolutionary insights about class divisions between women as early as the mid-’70s in their collection of essays Class and Feminism. These discussions did not trivialize the feminist insistence that “sisterhood is powerful,” they simply emphasized that we could only become sisters in struggle by confronting the ways women – through sex, class, and race – dominated and exploited other women, and created a political plat- form that would address these differences” – hooks. Through differences and through pain women can come together and face anything. In Riot grrrl women all across America came together and worked their differences to create something beautiful and to create a movement that other women can come together and be a part of. I love playing video games and the only video game that makes me think of this class is Cyber punk, cyber punk is a futuristic video game with people who are half robots. There are females, males, and other sexes and intersexes in the game as well and the main character doesn’t look at anyone any different than everyone else.
Education and friendships are two topics I want to talk about. Education for younger children for different genders and stuff like that is needed because they will meet people and see people or even themselves that aren’t what they are. They need to be taught that there’s nothing bad about anyone that’s a different gender from them and not to be afraid or treat anyone differently that isn’t their gender. That is where the second topic comes into play. Kids and people in general need to make bridges and friendships with anyone instead of hating and discriminating against people who are different from them. I think these topics are a good fit because these are two important topics that need to heard and taught when talking about gender studies.
