![]() No, this is a feature we definitely – as LOLCats would put it – DO NOT WANT! I wonder how something like this would affect transgendered people?Should they have to verify twice – once for the gender they werelabeled with at birth, and another for their true gender? Or is thisgoing to force them into a "not until you've had all your legalpaperwork sorted out" box? Siobhan Taylor added a comment – 30/Apr/09 11:57 AM If you want to be sure that the person you're in love with is the right gender – date in real life.īeezle Warburton added a comment – 30/Apr/09 02:03 PM Equating misrepresentation of gender in a video game to rape is an insult to anyone who has ever been a rape victim in real-life.ģ. This problem could have been solved by the OP with a video-chat request with her bride-to-be.Ģ. Marx Dudek added a comment – 30/Apr/09 01:27 PMġ. The comments on Mandy's Jira proposal are golden. ![]() Don't the Japanese have something like that in development? So… you met someone who was not what they claimed – and now you want compensation? What are they going to do, take off their pants and send a picture to Linden Lab? Have a crotch inspector? Oh, I know. I lost REAL money here through this fraud. Spent a fortune on the wedding and other things then "she" confessed to being a rl male. I married what a thought was a German girl. I was a victim of this fraud myself and it happens often. Also, the gender verified option could be shown on the profile page. I would be able to allow only gender verified people on the sim. As an owner of a women only venue this would be a tremendous feature to have. It's not foolproof but it would allow female users in SL to feel safer. ![]() Second Life has age verification in place that could be used to voluntarily allow residents to become gender verified. Men come to women only areas and use a female avatar to cause troubl emotionally and in other ways. SL should be cutting edge on this.ĭescription: Too often women are violated by men in SL. Many lesbians regard this practice as a form of cyber rape. Mandy Dorfler leads the charge to clean up the metaverse with a recent Jira entry: " Use the Age Verification system already in place to do a voluntary Gender Verification to protect against the fraudulent use of female avatars by RL males. If that is not bad enough, imagine the hurt and rage in the fur community when a certain special SL snow leopard turns out to be something else entirely. We've moved from being butthurt on the Second Life forums to being butthurt on the Linden Lab public JIRA – now the site of choice to whinge if you've been slighted in some manner in the fictional entertainment that is Second Life.įor instance, consider the plight of SL lesbians who feel 'raped' when their SL female partner turns out to be a real-life male. SL sex fraud victim Mandy Dorfler loses money on wedding, asks Linden Lab for gender verification - Is species verification for furries next? ![]() Is Your Second Life Woman a Real Life Man?īy Alphaville Herald on 04/05/09 at 10:01 pm ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |
AuthorWrite something about yourself. No need to be fancy, just an overview. ArchivesCategories |