Although games continued to be released for the platform until 2000, Chrono Trigger came late in the SNES’s tenure as Nintendo’s flagship console, with the Nintendo 64 (N64) launching the following year. This is the environment out of which Chrono Trigger, the critically acclaimed Japanese role-playing game (JRPG), launched on the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) in 1995. For third wave feminists, womanhood is whatever a woman defines for herself. Third wave feminists insist that, while the category of “women” was defined politically according to biology and socially constructed gender roles, anyone can and should be able to self-identify as a “woman.” They embrace those things–such as cosmetics, brassieres, and high heels–which second wave feminists considered oppressive and restricting. Third wave feminism, fomented in the early 1990s, sought to correct these failings. The second wave of the 1960s and ’70s focused on an expression of universal womanhood, one which largely ignored the experiences of marginalized women, including: women of color, lesbians and bisexual women, lower-class women, and women outside the gender binary–which is to say, trans*, genderqueer, and gender-fluid individuals. Much of this late 20th-century social progress can be attributed to the rise of third wave feminism. Today, LGBTQ individuals and their allies continue to fight for equality based on sexual orientation and identity. Despite the tentative foothold on progress gay, lesbian, and bisexual individuals managed to achieve, however, the trans* community would not begin to see such advances until the later part of the decade. Instituted in 1994 and repealed in 2010, the “Don’t ask, don’t tell” (DADT) policy was an important, if controversial, step toward making military policy respectful of sexual orientation. In the mid-90s, the United States sociopolitical landscape was in a progressively transitional period. The world economy was recovering from a recession, and Western military forces occupied the Eastern Bloc and the Middle East. Looking back on it after nearly twenty years, the world as it was in 1995 is, simultaneously, almost unrecognizable and yet somehow familiar to the point of surreality. *Spoilers for the 1995 Super Nintendo title, Chrono Trigger.
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