We know the model stereotypes in RL: women and men plagued with addiction and eating disorders in their efforts to maintain the perfect bodies required by their careers. Second Life spares models such damaging habits with the ease and painlessness of plastic surgery (we all jumped on that bandwagon in order to escape our horrendous newbie forms), low maintenence hairstyles (even when they look like we spent all morning getting each hair perfect) and the fact that in world models don't have the stressful celebrity status of their RL counterparts. Still, stereotypes may enter into many aspects of Second Life including our choice of employment, styles of entertainment and appearance (yes, I do play on the dumb blonde stereotype often).
What stereotypes have you seen in-world and how harmful are they to your Second Life experience?
5 comments:
...Dem is this flour? wink wink Love this one.
Wow a pile of coke brings back memories, licks his lips.
um...yes...flour it is...
the daily is my favorite spot to come and blog.
LOL thought so...smiles.
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