Feminist
Pro-Queer
Anti-Racist
Gaming

We have decided to no longer use a rating system for the feminist critique portion of our reviews. While the narrative of the FC will still be produced, we feel that the rating system itself is not as easily applied to the FC of games.

It is difficult to say what rating a game should get on this scale. Should it be relative to other games or only placed on its own? After all, many games leave much to be desired as far as race, gender,and GLBT presence is concerned - if this weren't the case we wouldn't have a reason for this site. Taken away from the relative, we feel that many of the ratings will be very low.

Mostly, though, are decision is based on the intersection of sexism, racism, heterosexism, and anti-queerism. By providing a number rating to this, it feels as though we aren't adequately addressing this. It kind of puts us in a position to decide which is worse. If a game has strong female characters but portrays other minorities in degrading ways then it both deserves a higher rating for the presence of strong women but a very low rating for its portrayal (or exclusion) of other minorities. By putting a number to this, it seems like we're rating the importance of each of these factors. In that, we would be ignoring the way that these intersect. Since these factors don't exist in separate bubbles, we can't really rate these so simply as on a scale. Our mission statement expansion discusses intersection in more depth.