What do you call someone who speaks three languages? Trilingual.I was window shopping for hair a while back, looking at the lucky chairs along with some other folks. Not much conversation going on, or perhaps it was all in voice; voice has yet to appear in the Linux SL client.. and then the occasional remarks started:
What do you call someone who speaks two languages? Bilingual.
What do you call someone who speaks one language? American.
--old and inaccurate joke
"mostro"
"disgustoso"
If it really didn't bother me, I wouldn't feel the urge to write about it, so congratulations, whoever said that.
4 comments:
Well...I've seen your Flickr photos; your prim breasts are, by definition, 'monstrous', possibly in more than one sense of the word: (OED - 2. a. Of animals and plants: Abnormally formed; deviating congenitally from the normal type; malformed. b. Said of human beings.
4. a. Of unnaturally or extraordinarily huge dimensions; gigantic; immense; enormous)
In size they exceed anything known in normal human anatomy, save among the grotesquely obese; in their defiance of gravity they bow to no laws of physics. They are unnatural and also, to many or even most people who don't share your psychosexual kinks ('Breast Expansion Fanatics'?) disgusting. You may not be happy about this, but you're not going to change it, either.
I do not like it and I AM going to change it.
"Anonymous" obviously does not have the courage to let us know whom they might be.
I've got to weigh in on this one because I too wear the "disgustingly large prim breasts". I do so because my avatar resembles my RL form, which coincidentally has "disgustingly large REAL breasts".
Unlike SL, however, it would take a major act of surgery to reduce my bosom to proportions that some would consider "morally acceptable".
Yes, morally acceptable because if one isn't a perky little C-cup then one is viewed as a whore who is constantly looking for fresh meat. I have 3 college degrees (none in art history), a great marriage, children, a good job, and (SURPRISE!) no psyshosexual kinks! I even go to church every Sunday (dragging my disgustingly large breasts along with me)! WOW! Sounds normal!
I want to know what kind of psychosexual kinks the fellow with the 10 foot bat wings attached to his back is trying to express? Or some of the cute cartoon characters one finds wandering around SL? THEY get praise and compliments on their appearance. Put one amazon with a huge chest in the mix and everything changes.
I say if you have the confidence to wear a large bust then go for it! You will fit right in with all the other outrageous personalities in the virtual world.
"Great spirits have always received violent opposition from narrow minds".
Anyone concerned about things being unnatural shouldn't bother with SL, where avatars and prims defy the laws of physics as a matter of course: people fly unaided and teleport, and multiple objects occupy the same space at the same time. Similarly, the height of avatars tends to exceed the average as well, with relatively little sniping.
Moreover, I would argue that medical advances mean that all extremes of the human body tend to be pushed towards the middle, so we simply don't see or hear about many who would otherwise stand out. On the whole, that is a great thing, though I have issues with social pressure and harassment rather than health or personal preferences motivating such forced regression to the mean...
...but that's not the issue. The issue is courtesy.
Live the second life you love, and love in the second life you have.
And for the others, you'll get farther with a kind word and a bitchy put down than with a kind word...
^^
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