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Originally Posted by Malachi  I was using "crossdressing" metaphorically which in SL is pretty close to the mark; if I can change my gender as easily as I change my shirt, I tend to think of a body shape as just being another sort of clothes. Forgive the slight please, it was unintentional. |
Not to worry, I didn't perceive it as a slight at all. My comment was more a clarification, or in view of your definition above, a disagreement.
Changing gender may be as easy as changing a shirt, but it has significantly more meaning for anyone who has any degree of identification with their avatar. Even the narrowly focused desire of a male to be a voyeur of lesbian sex using their female avatar still creates a meaningful context for their choice. It was a deliberate selection made to elicit a certain type of emotion that a male avatar could not provide.
In my case, for instance, the visual effect of a female avatar wearing masculine clothing is very different from that of a male avatar wearing that same clothing. The social connotations are also quite different.