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I still have some of my old clothes from the 80s.

Lets just say they must've "shrunk" cuz they sure are VERY tight fitting.

Still got the skinny leather neckties too!

And somewhere in the house, is my t-shirt from the Bicentennial in 1976.

One other 80s Fashion Statement: Painters Hats.

dont forget the painter pants! those were quite popular too.
am i the only one that wore a foreign legionnaires cap?

I came to this thread very late, so I have to hijack the discussion of the '80s. It seems to me the OP is a lot more sensible than the people who were criticizing her - raging at her seems a better description.

In fact, I suspect she's right in suspecting that a lot of the female avs in hooker suits are in fact being operated by biological males with issues.

Seems to me this thread says a lot more about her critics than it does about the OP - they were far more trollish than she at every step of the way. Hey, I don't like the old "the victim was asking for it" meme either, but that isn't what she was talking about. Looks to me like her flamers are reading it into her comments so they can have an excuse to rage at her. They look suspiciously like cases of "The lady doth protest too much."



Aside to Brenda: Nice to see you in the forums again, and as for your outfit that got you hit on - Well, damn, woman, I'd have hit on you too. I always did go for the classy-yet-sensual-lady look. And I don't even do cybersex!

I've been following this thread all along because most everyone gets bothered by unwanted attention in SL and I wondered just how much of an 'issue' it is for an RL male to dress his av like an SL whore.

A good deal of the OP rests on the fact that the greater number of us go out of our way - male and female - to objectify our avs as ideals of attractiveness (insofar as a crudely rendered bunch of polygons could be), which is a feature of the game if not necessarily the sine qua non of playing.

How we deal with attention when it inevitably comes is another intrinsic feature. Most of the instances of 'griefing' that I read or hear about might be solved by using the Mute button or simply walking away. Otherwise, I wonder if the greater number of complaints aren't in themselves a matter of "the lady doth protest too much". We just love to have something to complain about.

As for speculation about the RL gender of an av: well, it has never mattered much to me if that monstrous denotaur is an eighty-year-old granny with attitude, the babe on the dancepole might be an accountant from Surrey or the big guy cruising the docks is really a nun from the Convent of the Broken Heart.

It's SL: it isn't real but it's a riot.

What is interesting is why folk want to do the things they do but that involves the hard work of getting to know them. Unfortunately, it would seem that is too much like hard work for most and I'm left wondering why they bother with SL in the first place?

What issues would they be ???Well suspicioned of you. Have fun with this.

When I first came to SL I visited just about every adult place in SL to see what all the fuss was about and because Im nosey =). And at lots places I got the hey babee u want do the smexy and I say No thanks, I just here to perv =) Although when no one was there I jump on all kinds things just to see what happens. Is lots of really imaginative and funny stuff that people make, and while some people right into this kinda thing and take it quite seriously, personally I find it hilarious. But thats just me. =) Anyways.

I was at this one place and was packed. A lady avatar went up to a guy avatar and say Hey! Handsome, you want some loving? And the guy say no thanks, you a guy, I been watching you. And the lady avatar said who here gives a chit about that. And the guy avatar says he does and he looking for a real girl. The whole place crack up laughing when he said this.

The lady avatar who was a real guy then have a chat to him about life and stuff and that he not really going to find a real girlfriend in a public pixel orgy room anytime soon, and that any of the real women present were more likely to shag him (the lady avatar) than some lost soul looking for a girlfriend in such a place. Was good that the lady avatar guy take the time to tell the guy avatar guy this.

I also point out that the OP was talking about real-world women who, in her view were a bunch of sheep for dressing in a way that she disapproved of. So I dont really know where the guy stuff you are referring to comes into it at all.

I think that the OPs mistake was in blaming women and their choice of dress, when that does not seem to be the problem here.

The problem that the OP saw, but apparently did not recognize, was that there are people who believe that it is appropriate to use these "anti-griefer"* tools as a means of dealing with harassment or people they do not like. Had the OP focused on the utter riduclousness of the marketing ploys rather than fixating on how women dress, there might have been a valid point.



*
As Tabliopa already stated, there really are no such things as "Anti-Griefer" tools. The only tools I have seen that could be considered "Anti-Griefer" would be

1. Objects that alert you when you have been hit by a scripted object and tell you the owner's name.

2. Objects that assist in using land tools such as eject and/or managing parcel banlist.

Most other devices that may be marketed as being "anti-griefer" are weapons. There are areas in SL where some of them can be used for consensual combat, but otherwise their use is pretty much always griefing.




Again, had the OP focused on people's need to utilize these tools, rather than focusing on how women chose to dress, this might have been a more productive thread. Oh well.

Batman comics. Early issues are quite valuable!