1. In one of the responses to the article, left by Sowa Mai, it discusses the issue of entering a virtual world with our perspective still intact. These perspectives are based on situations and events experienced in the real world. In my mind I wonder whether or not our perspectives, while in a virtual world, are worth anything. In a place where we can be anyone or anything we want, where we can do things we as real people would never dare to do for fear of seclusion or judgment, in a realm where anything goes, do these perspectives matter?
2. The society we live in trains us to expect unrealistic and unachievable attributes of ourselves and of each other via commercialized mass media. We are bombarded with commercialized images of the ideal body, the ideal home, the ideal lifestyle day in and day out. For this reason, the ambiguity of identity while in a virtual world can be extremely attractive. In a virtual world we have the freedom to alter any indicators of age, race, gender; to be anyone we want to be. In reality, we are pressured to be all of these ideal things with just a hint of hope that we may someday be, but in a virtual world we have the choice to be whoever we want, whether that be the ideal image that we feel pressured into being, or anything else we may have our hearts set on. The question I pose in this case is that since we live in a society that puts this sort of pressure on us daily, why wouldn't we be attracted to escape to a place where we can actually be exactly who we want to be without the fear of being ridiculed for not following the societal norm?
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