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Are There Any Good Women in SL?
Mina Welesa
Semi-retired
Join date: 19 Dec 2004
Posts: 228
07-25-2005 16:33
I'm good. Of course, it would be undignified if someone my age acted otherwise.
blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
07-25-2005 16:40
From: someone

Just a question, blaze: how on earth can you tell the difference?

I am a woman in rl, but I do not fit the 'stereotypical' female gender role: I can use a Skil Saw, I like baseball (well, live games--not televised), I place great store in my professional life, I hate shopping. Do these qualities make me any less womanly or female?

Interestingly, in SL, female AVies are often hyper-feminine. They, often but not always, reflect an extreme version of what western culture aesthetically asks/demands of women. Could it be that you experience a "jarring" when your expectations (ie "She is a seeexxxy Avie.";) do not match your experiences ("Wow, she is really forward and outspoken";)?
I would not label such mismatching of expectations as "chauvinist" per se; rather I would claim such thwarting of expectation and the frustration that results is "human."

Are there good women in SL? No doubt. Are they what you might expect? It is unlikely.


True. People are never archetypes.

The beauty of the modern age, and I think it was Byron who said this, is that we can be who we want to be. And that includes - masculine or feminine.

Are there any good men? Are there any good women? Who cares.

The question really should be -- are there any good Alts?
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Seth Kanahoe
political fugue artist
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,220
07-25-2005 16:55
What is "good"? The way I've seen it defined here, and the other "alt" thread, is "he/she is good for me."

Bleh.
Seth Kanahoe
political fugue artist
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,220
07-25-2005 16:55
From: Merwan Marker
To balance the "Are There Any Good Men In Second Life" thread.

:eek:


heh, heh, c'mon, I can't resist: WHY?
blaze Spinnaker
1/2 Serious
Join date: 12 Aug 2004
Posts: 5,898
07-25-2005 17:01
Well, relative to the cosmos, I'd have a hard time defining good since, well, I'm not the cosmos.

However, relative to me, good is someone who bends all the rules (especially the social ones) but breaks none of them.
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Taken from The last paragraph on pg. 16 of Cory Ondrejka's paper "Changing Realities: User Creation, Communication, and Innovation in Digital Worlds :

"User-created content takes the idea of leveraging player opinions a step further by allowing them to effectively prototype new ideas and features. Developers can then measure which new concepts most improve the products and incorporate them into the game in future patches."
Schwanson Schlegel
SL's Tokin' Villain
Join date: 15 Nov 2003
Posts: 2,721
07-25-2005 17:05
From: blaze Spinnaker
Well, relative to the cosmos, I'd have a hard time defining good since, well, I'm not the cosmos.

However, relative to me, good is someone who bends all the rules (especially the social ones) but breaks none of them.


Thats hot!
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Edav Roark
Bounty Hunter
Join date: 4 Sep 2003
Posts: 569
07-25-2005 17:08
From: Pendari Lorentz
I'm always good!! :) *polishes halo*


Yeah, at being bad :p
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Lianne Marten
Cheese Baron
Join date: 6 May 2004
Posts: 2,192
07-25-2005 18:12
I'm not good...





I'm FANTASTIC :p
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Seth Kanahoe
political fugue artist
Join date: 30 Jan 2005
Posts: 1,220
07-25-2005 18:21
From: blaze Spinnaker
Well, relative to the cosmos, I'd have a hard time defining good since, well, I'm not the cosmos.

However, relative to me, good is someone who bends all the rules (especially the social ones) but breaks none of them.


Hmmm. You're star debris, temporarily organized in an interesting way, functioning for but a moment amidst the wreckage of a colossal breaking of cosmic symmetry.

So.... OK. Fair enough.
Ananda Sandgrain
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Join date: 16 May 2003
Posts: 1,951
07-25-2005 18:51
Grains of sand.



Sorry about the mess. :D






















... I miss my sister. :(
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Osprey Therian
I want capslocklock
Join date: 6 Jul 2004
Posts: 5,049
07-25-2005 23:48
I'm not a good woman at all - I don't even own any hoochie hair or spike-heeled shoes. I barely qualify, I think. I am just.... an entity.
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Flanders and Swan
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07-26-2005 07:15
From: Merwan Marker
The question has to be asked.

My short answer - yes, there are good women in SL, women who are honest and know what they want and what's important and are short on drama.

:cool:



Yeah, my girlfriend is good.... damn good. But when she's bad she's better !!! :)
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Pendari Lorentz
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Join date: 5 Sep 2003
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07-26-2005 07:17
From: Edav Roark
From: Pendari Lorentz
I'm always good!! :) *polishes halo*
Yeah, at being bad :p


:eek:
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Ingrid Ingersoll
Archived
Join date: 10 Aug 2004
Posts: 4,601
07-26-2005 07:21
From: Mina Welesa
I'm good. Of course, it would be undignified if someone my age acted otherwise.



This is Second Life Mina... let's get you a leather jacket, a cigarette and some virtual beer tonight. :D
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Toast Bard
is making magic
Join date: 25 Jul 2004
Posts: 241
07-26-2005 11:47
im really a man but my bf doesnt knowloool
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Aimee Weber
The one on the right
Join date: 30 Jan 2004
Posts: 4,286
07-26-2005 11:52
From: Toast Bard
im really a man but my bf doesnt knowloool


I do NOW! :mad:
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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07-26-2005 11:55
From: Aimee Weber
I do NOW! :mad:



EXCUSE ME? You dirty, rotten cheater. You've been dating Toast too this whole time? :mad: :mad: :mad:
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Aimee Weber
The one on the right
Join date: 30 Jan 2004
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07-26-2005 12:00
From: Ingrid Ingersoll
EXCUSE ME? You dirty, rotten cheater. You've been dating Toast too this whole time? :mad: :mad: :mad:


Ingrid! Don't be mad! You've got to believe me when I tell you... I NEVER thought you would find out!
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Ingrid Ingersoll
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07-26-2005 12:02
From: Aimee Weber
Ingrid! Don't be mad! You've got to believe me when I tell you... I NEVER thought you would find out!



Your heartfelt apology is too little too late. I want the pictures back. :mad:
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Newfie Pendragon
Crusty and proud of it
Join date: 19 Dec 2003
Posts: 1,025
07-26-2005 12:08
From: Ingrid Ingersoll
Your heartfelt apology is too little too late. I want the pictures back. :mad:


Pre or post-edited?
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Toast Bard
is making magic
Join date: 25 Jul 2004
Posts: 241
07-26-2005 12:28
laydays laydays chillll


theres enough toasty to go around baybehs. :cool:
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
07-26-2005 12:30
I can be a good woman - for a moderate fee....

For love is where you find it, wherever that may be... for me it was in Stillman with a better than than me, her husky voice seduced me.. my heart was in a mess - I put my hand upon her knee and something twiched b'neath her dress..

Siggy.
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Cindy Claveau
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Join date: 16 May 2005
Posts: 2,008
07-26-2005 12:35
From: Siggy Romulus
I can be a good woman - for a moderate fee....

For love is where you find it, wherever that may be... for me it was in Stillman with a better than than me, her husky voice seduced me.. my heart was in a mess - I put my hand upon her knee and something twiched b'neath her dress..

Siggy.

Siggy, I knew there was a reason I liked you. Now it suddenly dawned on me ... you're sick. Just like me.
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Siggy Romulus
DILLIGAF
Join date: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 5,711
07-26-2005 12:45
From: Cindy Claveau
Siggy, I knew there was a reason I liked you. Now it suddenly dawned on me ... you're sick. Just like me.


I am just one sick girl with asshat fetish... you give me joke and maybe I give special kindness - I funny like that...

:P

(bit of an inside joke with that one)
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Angel Coral
Otherworldly
Join date: 12 Dec 2003
Posts: 224
Yes, Merwan
07-26-2005 13:06
Even when we are bad, we are very, very good!

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