This made me think back to Carol Gilligan's
_In a Different Voice_. Even without reading
some of Goodwin's work, her titles echo some
of the concerns in that book. Keeping in mind
the dangers of essentializing gender (and the
ever-present seduction of easy contrast that
affords), the relationships between means & ends
(game complexity & game rules vs. interpersonal
understanding) indicate a different kind of
taking up & turning on for boys vs. girls.
To this day, I get bored by certain kinds of
play and turned on by others, and my preferences
map rather well onto the boys vs. girls divide.
I notice the same preferences in all kinds of
other spaces & activities ... (GGPC to friend:
I HATE set logic!)
(The gender ghetto looms ... but I'm not about
to make friends with set logic to save the
world (;-)!)
genevieve
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