What's in a name? OSR by any other name would still be an RPG

With the death of G+, the people within the OSR community are searching for a new place to have their community gather. They are also trying to decide if OSR covers what these new games really embody anymore. It's natural that the children will reach an age that they want to define themselves outside of being their parent's kids.

Personally I started to feel the people that fought hard to define OSR were more concerned about being the one to have created the definition more than anything. That could just be how I was interpreting things, but it seems ridiculous to argue over the definition otherwise.

Here's the problem I have with categorizing games: the very act of doing so is an exclusionary action that is making silent implications about all games. It's almost as if semantics are important when it comes to naming things, go figure. 

I've heard a lot of people try to defend this as a way to make it easier for new players to find other games they'll enjoy. That's a garbage argument cause so would a list of games with what those games were about would do without getting into the shitty act of trying to define "others." The entire point of categorization is separation. This categorization also serves to try to separate the people that might be playing theses games; which then creates "sides" and gives birth to needless argument over whether a game fits with the groupthink of what a game should be in their category. All this under the banner of helping new people find games they might want to play because of other games they enjoy.

I find an effective way to categorize the games I like when anyone asks what kind of games I like to play is by saying: "these are the games I like to play" followed by a list of games I enjoy. It also works with genres, for example "Here's some games about superheros:..." "This is a list of different fantasy games:..." It's remarkably effective without having to do any of that exclusionary categorization by defining others or sending the listener away with a head full of non-sense about movements and subgroups within a hobby they might just be starting.