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  1. Amina Sopwith
    When I was pregnant, a little girl asked me if I had a baby in my tummy. Without thinking, I replied, "Yes, but I really don't eat them very often." Thank God, her mother cracked up laughing, and she just looked a bit puzzled, as if she thought I'd misunderstood the question. That was the most fraught "wtf have I just done" moment of my life.
  2. Amina Sopwith
    Mislaid my phone, and actually spent a full five seconds thinking I could ring myself to find out where it was.
  3. Amina Sopwith
    What do you mean by "the law working right"?
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    I've not said it's ok to hassle child avatars. As with your previous posts, you're simply making up various derogatory reasons to try to invalidate people's wishes not to interact with them. We have no whimsy, we lack understanding, we stereotype, we think it's ok to hassle you. Anything other than the fact that we just don't like participating in someone's self-infantilisation, and haven't found you guys to be very good at playing the role. Do truly whimsical people have to keep on telling you how whimsical they are?
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    That's supposed to be how the law works...
  6. Amina Sopwith
    I was trying to illustrate why I see a difference between reading or watching a story that has a child in it, and being expected to participate in someone's personal fantasy of being treated like a child. Well, you can think what you like. I'm not interested in discussing whether infantilisation is a necessary element of whimsy.
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    So if someone thinks for themselves and comes to the opposite conclusion that you do, what then?
  8. Amina Sopwith
    Well that's the point. It's the interaction of it that makes it different in my mind. The difference between reading about Harry Potter, and meeting someone who expects me to call him the Boy Who Lived and ask him to defeat Voldemort. There's also a randomness of encounters in SL that makes it less of a selective audience than the person who chose to read the story. I don't mind reading a story that has a child in it, but I dislike meeting an adult who wants me to engage with and indulge them in their wish to infantilise themselves. It's a book I won't be reading, if you will.
  9. Amina Sopwith
    I see an enormous difference between writing a child character in a story, and presenting oneself as a child with the intention, even expectation, that people around you will indulge the fantasy and interact with you as one.
  10. Amina Sopwith
    Godwin in the opening post? But how do I know you're the authority on what's right? What if I think you're the one who's been brainwashed?
  11. Amina Sopwith
    This contrived way of writing is another reason I find it impossible to immerse myself in one of these illusions, although to be fair I can't get under this particular spell anyway. If somebody is role-playing with a particular accent, I've never seen them try to incorporate that in the typing. They might have it in a title over their head or something, and they might be using language in character (eg, particular turns of phrase), but I've never seen anyone else writing their actual pronunciation into their text. Like "parse me that glarse" if they're supposed to sound southern English.
  12. Amina Sopwith
    This is a really good point, and touches on the issue PPs have raised about whether you've actually changed a consensus just by being the loudest (without making a partisan statement either way on that particular issue; I'm just talking about the concept in abstract). The UK got absolutely blue rinsed (haha) in the last general election, but you'd never have known it was coming from social media. If you were paying attention to news sources, you'd know the Tories were going to win but social media alone would give the impression that they had no support...and even the experts didn't expect an absolute landslide like that. There are many issues where people won't put their heads above the parapet, because they've seen what happens to those who do, but it doesn't change what they think. And when they can vote anonymously, the discrepancy between the dominant narrative and what people really believe can become very clear.
  13. Amina Sopwith
    I'm going back a long way, but generally yes. Not necessarily very overtly, but certainly playing on the "I am very small and young so you need to humour me in whatever way I'm angling for". I also never met one who could capture that quality children have whereby they are obviously innocent and unknowing, but quite often catch you out with a very profound or wise observation, or unexpectedly adult turn of phrase. Or the sense of discovery about the world without actually realising overtly that discovery is what they're doing. Or the frustration, when that occurs. Why would they? Innocence doesn't know it's innocent, and that's why it's so hard to capture when it's a contrivance.
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    I know you didn't ask me, but you could have done, so... I find adults infantilising themselves to be a bit off-putting. I never liked it, and I've liked it even less since becoming a parent. I understand why people might like to do it and obviously I realise their right to do it in SL. And I accept that doing it in SL with a child avatar is "owning" it, and causing less aggro than adults who, in RL, expect everyone else to do life for them. But I find those people irritating and off-putting too. I had a boyfriend once, years ago, who used to do this horrible childish lower lip pout and expect me to be his mum. Lasted about five minutes, that did. Ugh. Bottom line is, I just find adults acting like they're dependent, vulnerable children to be unappealing company, so I just leave them alone in whatever world I encounter them. They can do it but I don't have to participate. As Sid said earlier, I never met one who could do it convincingly anyway.
  15. Amina Sopwith
    Or judge out loud, but at least make it funny.
  16. Amina Sopwith
    If you want to have conversations in real time, a voice morpher would seem a better option. A lot of people say they can tell the difference, but I'm not used to hearing it and unless it's done very badly, it would probably fool me.
  17. Amina Sopwith
    Have to say this was my experience too, and I'm not even talking about the super creepy sexualised ones. Innocence doesn't know it is innocent, by nature.
  18. Amina Sopwith
    I liked my job as a store model/customer assistant. Had no idea about all the drama going on among the staff until our (very generous) employer sent out a satisfaction survey to us in response to many staff complaints. All the grievances were stupid, but my favourite was the one about the model who was always on the top floor but never interacted. She was a registered and legal bot, the owner had told us that, she had "bot" in her name and it was stated in her profile.
  19. Amina Sopwith
    It's John Nobhead. I just know it from the writing style and character depth.
  20. Amina Sopwith
    What am I listening to? I have no idea. Don't ask me how, but I've just discovered this. What is it? I'm told they came from the cast of Starlight Express, which actually dates them less than their band name does, and explains the rollerskating, which I do kind of admire as that must be hard. Still...what AM I listening to? ETA: I think they all must have played Electra.
  21. Amina Sopwith
    I was laughing at exactly this point...
  22. Amina Sopwith
    Looking back, I can see when American and Australian men were making an effort with me because they were using British English terms. Or maybe they just knew how hard I'd laugh if they told me about their pants and thongs.
  23. Amina Sopwith
    Thinking how unexpectedly good I look on Zoom, and maybe I don't even need makeup, then realising I've got the "LIES, LIES, LIES" filter on.
  24. Amina Sopwith
    Play piano music, please.
  25. Amina Sopwith
    Dalek bin.
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