Pseudo NymMar 6

Musings on #gender and mind uploads, or purely digital persons, as one does.

Let's assume we get functioning "uploads". For all practical purposes, a "mind" (whatever that actually is) running on different hardware.

If they have something like VR for a self representation, would #trans folks feel more comfortable, or would cis folks feel less so, if their form were easily malleable?

Would that introduce a sense of dysphoria without a VR "body" at all?

Then what do constructs do with gender?

Show threadAwkward TuringMar 6

@pseudonym I honestly think that (maybe absurdly so when looking at transphobic ppl) cis folks would not only appreciate the option, but actively enjoy it.

There's this mythos that hetero cis males create female avatars in videogames to have a 24/7 view on da booty. Thats BS imo or at least doesn't reflect my own experience, nor the experience of friends that I talked to: the absolute majority reported, that they can >feel< like a fierce (or soft/cute) female character.

So whatever constitutes >feel< in that regard, its as if there is some sort of longing, not only towards the object, but >to be< that object.

To me thats fascinating.

Show threadPaper MoonMar 6
@AwkwardTuring @pseudonym I can confirm this. In my gaming I almost always play as a female; a fierce female character who kicks everyone's ass.
Show threadAwkward Turing
@TazPoltorak @pseudonym right? One could create a character with the same physique - therefore the same skeleton regarding animations - and even voice, but still, I assume, one would pick the female avatar.
Mar 6 at 8:44amWeb
Show threadPaper MoonMar 6
@AwkwardTuring @pseudonym tbh I didn't expect so many other people to do this. I always thought it was just my thing :)