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Whatever my electronic form, which is quite variable, please regard me as  genderless, which my mind is -- and our minds are what's really here, right?
Whatever my electronic form, which is quite variable, please regard me as  genderless, which my mind is -- and our minds are what's really here, right?
Gender is a  lens through which we see one another and interpret  words and actions.  I think it is a poor lens that blurs and distorts at least as often as it focusses and clarifies.  I prefer not to be seen through it and I prefer to see others without it too.  If you feel you don't really know a person unless you know their gender...what does this say about your attention to the content of  their character?  And how much you value people as individuals rather than as occupants of  roles?  Might be worth thinking about. 
English  used to have a pronoun "hae"  that was not specific to gender.  It was lost in medieval times, leaving us with only " he", "she", and " it".  Let's  recover the loss and enrich the language with modern epicene  pronouns.  They are perfect for SL.  "He or she" is  zie.  "His or her" is hir.  Nice, short, quick to type. 


In fantasy as in reality, we shape our own natures.  This is never trivial.   
In fantasy as in reality, we shape our own natures.  This is never trivial.   

Revision as of 09:50, 6 January 2009

Whatever my electronic form, which is quite variable, please regard me as genderless, which my mind is -- and our minds are what's really here, right?

In fantasy as in reality, we shape our own natures. This is never trivial.

Kurt Vonnegut: "We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend..."

We can practice being many different things in this fantasy world. Worse, better, more heedless, wiser. What fantasy do you mean to become?

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