For reasons I've stated earlier, having a female avatar is eye-candy. Sometimes I stare at my avatar for several minutes. It's very hypnotic when you're so very attracted to the female form.
Breaking away from my avatar for a moment, I ponder the question of shapes and forms.
Being a real life male, I comfortably slipped into my male avatar in May 2007 and wandered about SL. When I first adopted a female avatar a week ago, something was different. My thoughts during the first few days were to think of my female avatar as another person (was this me turning women into objects?), and not really me the way I think about my male avatar. I did not quite feel myself the way I did when I was a male or even as a tiny. That feeling has quickly changed in the last few days. I feel more "at home" as a female, just as much as I do as a male. I can now change shape/gender as easily as changing clothes.
After a few days, I have a strong sense of "me" again. Being female in a virtual world is not only eye-candy, it's an eye-opening experience.
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I remember seeing a review for the new metroid games that said one of the reasons they are so compelling is because when you are playing you can see yourself occasionally reflected in something-- and for traditional gamer guys the reflection is surprisingly female. I wish I could find it now, because it strangely applies.
i also stare fascinated sometimes at my AVA she's so like me RL and unlike me, too! (red hair, freckles, pale skin, big...ahem, etc) though i'm not nearly 7ft tall! ....i've often thought of having a male ava only to be able to dance with my friends at balls being a paucity of available males....and if i accidently put on another skin (they hide them in outifts sometimes!)...or if i put "makeup" on...i don't look "right" to me....my LILA skin is a no makeup version looks odd to me and somehow wrong. isn't that funny? and i wonder if being bi myself and liking women makes a diff? [shakes head] this experiment of yours has set me to thinking, sir!
Have fun playing around. It's good to explore things. :)
-Veyron
Yes it is eye opening.
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