Biker on the run

Biker on the run
Originally uploaded by KMADD Enterprise

notice the very male figure

A Internet Network Relationship Diagram

The circle in the center shows the Internet connectivity of the two. One has 3 connections which provide links to the various Cloud services in which a relationship between the two is established. This diagram show real time communications with solid lines and asynchronis relations with a dotted line. The top world is a Virtual World, the lower boxes could be emails or social network based communications which support and expand the relationship. One impact of using this asynchronis systems is the one of the members has more points of access to the relationship.

Take me in your arms

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Romantic play is a core element of Virtual Reality social existence, shown here. And that is to a large extent driving gender role identification, I think.

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Sex for sale

Sex for sale
Originally uploaded by rober1236jua

SL Pile Up on Aaaah Oh

SL Pile Up on Aaaah Oh
Originally uploaded by @--->Brandy<---@

Here is a radical statement of gender in SL

An image of the female from Second Life

 

I find this image a bit odd. Firstly the creator Lapin Paris kicked me and a few other people out of a group for daring to talk about the status of Africa in the Internet and on Second Life. Yet the ad still comes, Capitalism.

But beyond my petty emotions the image itself is strange. I am not entirely sure where the source of the blood is suppose to be. In fact looking closely at it we can see that this is absurdest blood, impossible blood. Blood that soaks and spatters the bottom of a long dress until it is soaked like a burka in the rain, and yet leaves the shoes barely touched and does not spatter to the face or chest. This blood that spatters but not like blood spatters in a body. Perhaps it is the product of some kind of blood spattering machine, or an image of an unpleasant surgical event translated on to a gown without existing there.

What makes a woman

 

What social forces and practices make a woman? How is the a woman produced through work? And, does that work start with culture or go back to mammal radical seperation of female sexual function and male?

These are the issues that keep me up at night. I really can't see how to fit biology in to a deeper question of gender discourse. I have no idea gender is contructed, but our constructions as humans often take advantage of biology. And the limits of biology have often imposed different roles to male and female. You can't tend a child and hunt at the same time and human children can't be left alone.

Perhaps this is the Greeks interest in the myth of the Amazons. They must have understood that there would be no reason for women not to fight, and women from the regions near Russia, Georgia, and Iran where nomadic tribes raised horses could produce an very deadly weapon. A female, light and yet strong (women were strong in antiquity if not in the Victorian age), with a speak and bow.

The Greeks of Homer's age were mostly infantry forces but they had horses, and the raised horses and they must have known a boy can defeat a man on a fast horse, if the boy is good. It would make sense to field an army of female calavry unites just as today it would make sense to field units of them in tanks and jets, reduction of wieght can make a major difference in a battle.

But Western Culture never tried with this. Russia used women in WWI and WWII combat but none of the Axis or Allies did so in such a major way. Women could fight but they don't, because warrior has a status in our culture women can not be allowed to tradionally hold.

Rober1236 Jua the Cyber Trekker of Second Life