Comments on: Digital foot-binding http://bcking.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/digital-foot-binding/ Bola C. King in Second Life, at work, and at play Sun, 17 May 2009 23:46:52 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Vint Falken http://bcking.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/digital-foot-binding/#comment-63 Vint Falken Mon, 06 Oct 2008 00:11:07 +0000 http://bcking.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-63 Isn't that exactly the same as RL? If you want something unique/special to own or wear, or have special needs, you either have to search ages to find it, or pay dearly for it? ;) Isn’t that exactly the same as RL? If you want something unique/special to own or wear, or have special needs, you either have to search ages to find it, or pay dearly for it? ;)

]]> By: Sarah http://bcking.wordpress.com/2008/08/12/digital-foot-binding/#comment-54 Sarah Wed, 20 Aug 2008 15:55:01 +0000 http://bcking.wordpress.com/?p=50#comment-54 HA HA -- How is it? How did this happen? Simple and (ohhhh I've waited so long to say this) I'll tell you why. SL was designed as a virtual world by FLers was it not? The "people" whose avatars populate SL are FLers, are they not? How could the good, the bad, and the ugly NOT infiltrate SL? You honestly didn't expect it to be completely non-biased did you? No, i didn't think you did B,. As two people on the opposite spectrums of weight management and neither of us fulling fitting into societal norms of weight, size, shape or beauty it shouldn't come as a surprise. It would be NICE if that weren't the case but I think anything created out of the biased and twisted views of our current cultural norms, is going to have at least a remnant of that -- size 0 shoes and deformed avatars is perhaps your first exposure but I suspect you'll find more. Remember I asked you about your wings and how people react to you in class both as a black man, and a man who has wings and wears heels... (you never answered by the way). Aversion and manipulation and bias I fear are part of the human condition (not that it's right and you know I feel that way). HA HA — How is it? How did this happen? Simple and (ohhhh I’ve waited so long to say this) I’ll tell you why.

SL was designed as a virtual world by FLers was it not? The “people” whose avatars populate SL are FLers, are they not? How could the good, the bad, and the ugly NOT infiltrate SL? You honestly didn’t expect it to be completely non-biased did you? No, i didn’t think you did B,.

As two people on the opposite spectrums of weight management and neither of us fulling fitting into societal norms of weight, size, shape or beauty it shouldn’t come as a surprise. It would be NICE if that weren’t the case but I think anything created out of the biased and twisted views of our current cultural norms, is going to have at least a remnant of that — size 0 shoes and deformed avatars is perhaps your first exposure but I suspect you’ll find more.

Remember I asked you about your wings and how people react to you in class both as a black man, and a man who has wings and wears heels… (you never answered by the way). Aversion and manipulation and bias I fear are part of the human condition (not that it’s right and you know I feel that way).

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