sl community full of deviants?

... nekos (have I fergotten anyone?)

Just a thought. Can anyone really be considered a Deviant by what they think or dream/fantasize about, without doing those things in reality? Since SL is for a lot of people a fantasy existence, can you really consider anything you do here Deviant Behavior. When it gets boiled down, none if it is Real. You aren't really covering your body in stewed prunes while you have someone in a Darth Vader Mask and Stilletto Heels, beat you with a Polo Mallett while singing "Finlandia".

Yes, Robot Cucumbers and Tiny Tamago.

I totally support the OP! This whole place if full of deviants! Why... even television and movies are full of deviants too! Those people on that island? They aren't even LOST! They're just a bunch of actors... or should I say....LIARS! There is no real kung fu panda! He's not even real! I've been to a zoo. Disturbing lies and deviancy! I went to broadway and those cat people aren't real. I pulled the tail off one and she called security! More lies! Those rappers singing about their gangster life on the radio? Wait... I saw him in my suburb! He drives a Prius! Damn you all!! Why... in every single damn game that I've seen everyone is pretending to be something else! Why are you pretending to be a wizard or a soldier or a race car driver!!! Stop deluding yourself! LIARS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I saw that! You were playing chess just now but.. but.. but... you're not a King! or even a Queen!! How dare you play that!

That's crazy talk, right there.

*carnival music plays!*




Come see the amaaaazing world that is the Modern Metaverse!

Yes, you too can observe the wildest variances of the human mind!

Boys that are girls! Girls that are boys! Daemons and furry creatures of human proportion!

After that, see unnatural acts, unforetold and unimagined in Nature!

Step right this way - that's right, you can look for free! Yes, Free!

Yeap, that will sure scare the crowds of mainstream people away.

Who doesn't?

Back to the topic, though: aren't most folks who opt to use Second Life as a creative and/or social outlet deviant by nature? It is not the "norm" of society.

But why be normal, when we have a much more interesting universe next door?

Mari

Thingy?

I think it's perfectly normal to *want* to have this level of creative and social release; we're just constrained by the societies we live in more often than not. So while the behavior we witness in SL is not the usual ... it's certainly not what can often be called abnormal. Outside of SL, it's more often simply repressed.

Ding-a-ling?

there's a new thread in town, and we're looking for the sheriff!

You aren't really covering your body in stewed prunes while you have someone in a Darth Vader Mask and Stilletto Heels, beat you with a Polo Mallett while singing "Finlandia".

There's... there's... a monster... under *my* bed? Eep!

QFT. We're usually more ourselves in SL, as dragons, or furries, or even as kids than we might be in the real world. We are often showing aspects of ourselves in SL that are otherwise hidden away in the "real" world. It's not lying, it's unfettered expression.

*passes Mari a bat to clobber the monster under the bed* Sleep safe, kiddo

Yeah - YOU found 'em. Probably put them there!

LOL! That's what you think! [but it isn't "Finlandia", it's "Old Man RIver".]

So... what was a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?

Or him, for that matter?

Hey, I hear what you are trying to say... but this can be a bit of an inflammatory statement.

Word on the street is that just about *all* of us are boring, regular, ordinary people. With ordinary lives, responsibilities, kids, you-name-it.

It hasn't been about 'us' for years - we are too busy making ends meet. Pretty much all awe and wonder has been drained from our lives, replaced by mortgages, insurance, and having to get up and be there for the crisis du jour our spouse/child/co-worker/parent is having.

The fact we can be a little different, show our inner selves and dream again is priceless.

* * * * *

I'm not exactly the most controversial, but being Guvnah of a micronation that "doesn't exist" isn't exactly mainstream.

Thus, sign me up for deviance, please.




Speaking of other 'really different' people - Big Bird was unmasked today.

ZOMG Furries!

Making the world a better place for four decades.


http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080616/entertainment/being_big_bird_1

"Hey Doc...is this going to hurt or anything? 'Cause I jus....whoahwhoahwhoah!!Eeya!Ohgoodgodcrapwhatthehellhowlongdoyouneedtodothatpleasetellmeyourdonenowohlord...whew...please tell me you didn't find anything wrong..."

It's always the "normal" ones forming linch mobs and hunting for witches.

It's always the "normal" ones forming linch mobs and hunting for witches.

But they ARE the deviants! The sluts, the furries, the vampires, the shemales, the escorts, the poor confuddled g'newbies wiith the 4 prim plastic weenies, the nekos (have I fergotten anyone?)


WE ARE THE NORM!

The OP is the deviant!

Aww my threads get so big once I leave but I'm surprised this hasn't been closed yet.

K so I haven't been on SL in like 2 months first of all.

I pretty much quit anyways.

But the reason I made this thread is because I saw on another forum people had the same view I did about all of the trash on SL, so I was surprised it wasn't just me and my fiance who noticed this.

I don't care if all you people do is sit on your ass all day cybering or earning 1 usd a day for whatever it is you do, or cheat on your RL partner for a virtual lover, but really the outside world has a pretty negative view of sl and it's inhabitants.

Is every single person in SL a scumbag or deviant? Noo. But there's a lot of rotten apples that spoil the bunch so to speak.

With all the negative press SL gets due to predators, thieves and what nots. It's no wonder people view SL users in this way.

The old days were much better, you people basically have ruined the community, those of you who do fit what I say in my first post.

I feel bad for most of you, the ones who shrug it off, the ones who think it's okay, and the ones who even participate in it.

Yeah hmm I think I'll take my normal life, and you enjoy your make believe tentacle furry pedo sex or whatever. ^o^ Do you see why the outside world sees you as abnormal when you partake in things like that? Well peace out.

SL is make believe??? I'm crushed. /me opens another bottle of scotch.