"No fun" conservatives undermine the movement

I wrote an email to Katherine Kersten about her column on Grand Theft Auto:

Columns like yours feed the false message that conservatism is about no one ever having any fun. People have learned it. They think conservatives want to make their fun activities illegal, even when those activities are as innocent and harmless as playing a video game.

Video games and interactive entertainment are the present and future. Just because you didn't grow up with them and they make you vaguely uncomfortable because you can't relate to them (have you tried?) doesn't make them any worse (or better or different) than any other form of entertainment.

Your ignorance is obvious from your column. People read books with dark characters in them. They've been doing that for years. I'm sure someone who grew up before novels wrote a very similar column. Then it assuredly happened for radio stories. Then comic books. Then movies. Then TV. There was similar ignorant nonsense about rock and roll music. Then rap. It's all the same kind of message: "old person can't relate to new entertainment, decides it's evil". Why do people keep making the same mistakes over and over again? Why do you?

Another section from your column is interesting:

Research confirms that violent media increase young people's aggressive thoughts and behavior and decrease their self-control and the inclination to help others. Adolescents who play violent video games tend to be more hostile, to argue more with teachers, to get into more physical fights, and to do more poorly in school, one national study reports.

Haven't conservatives been railing against the education system dumbing down and feminizing their sons for about 20 years now? I'm not sure I understand what's wrong with "aggressive". And don't teachers need to be argued with? If video games can reduce the trend of boys growing up to be wimpy, feminized metrosexuals, then Hooray!

A lot of conservatives, like myself, are tired of getting bogged down. It's hard enough to argue against big government and for freedom and America without having this ignorant nonsense to deal with. I can't really cite your columns in an argument, now can I? "Katherine Kersten is right about the muslim school, despite her appalling, ignorant nonsense about video games." Nope. Score one for the liberals, I guess.

For you, this is your "cling to their religion and their guns" moment. You and Obama should stop looking down on ordinary people. It doesn't help.