![]() ![]() There is no personal interaction, but the visuals are the same as if there was an active human controlling the other avatar. A client avatar can join the AFK escort on the furniture and take charge of the controls. For people unfamiliar with Second Life, these are relatively new areas where unattended avatars are left on furniture that has scripted sex animations, while the RL people behind them (theoretically) leave the screen and go on with their physical lives. You can’t search the in-world destination guide without coming across these, because the continual presence of parked avatars drives their traffic numbers to the top of the list. In my sample thus far, male avatars (of any species/type) are about 27% and avatars of undetermined gender are about 4%. There are ways I could dig deeper into this and perhaps I will, but this is a start. Primarily, I’m looking at gender presentation of avatars in user profiles - not the people in RL nor their appearance at the time. I don’t have historic numbers to compare against but I have started a study counting avatars in public spaces. My observation after exploring a variety of SL regions that were not particularly gendered was that there are fewer avatars presenting as male than there were in the past. If you have any people I should speak with or things I should read to get more perspective, please pass those along to Kay Jiersen (in SL) or kayjiersen at gmail. ![]() ![]() Could this be the result of selection bias? What is really going on? How do others react to this? So, I thought I’d share what I’m working on. I’ve started several posts but, being a methodical person, I keep stopping and asking myself more questions. I wander looking for interesting things and people, then spend equally as much time pondering what I’ve found. Going back into Second Life after three years has given me a lot to think about. ![]()
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