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    Yeats -- or at least, Crazy Jane -- argued that this was just an emblem of the "wholeness" of human experience; that spirit needed body, and body spirit. Crazy Jane Talks with the Bishop I met the Bishop on the road And much said he and I. `Those breasts are flat and fallen now Those veins must soon be dry; Live in a heavenly mansion, Not in some foul sty.' `Fair and foul are near of kin, And fair needs foul,' I cried. 'My friends are gone, but that's a truth Nor grave nor bed denied, Learned in bodily lowliness And in the heart's pride. `A woman can be proud and stiff When on love intent; But Love has pitched his mansion in The place of excrement; For nothing can be sole or whole That has not been rent.' I'm not sure, however, that I'm not with you on that one.
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    Google searches for things like "Gor Communities" seem to show an awful lot of activity dating from pre-2012, most of it in SL, and not a great deal since.
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    I like the new first name, btw.
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    You either mean "Beautiful Baby Girls" or . . . board games?
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    From "The Gorean Scribe," ca. 2021: "After a peak in the early 2000s, the online Gorean community began to decline. Many who were around only or primarily for the role-play aspect got bored, the Gorean-flavored BDSMers found new fads, and many simply gave up on the admittedly extremely hard work of building and maintaining an online community, particularly one with a strongly counter-cultural and libertarian bent."
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    We've had this conversation before. Muting and blocking someone after they have done something offensive is a poor substitute for expecting people to respect boundaries and consent. How about they just learn to behave like responsible members of a civil society instead? The onus for dealing with someone's crappy behaviour shouldn't be on the victim, but on the perpetrator. C'mon Coffee, you know this stuff. I've heard you say it yourself!!! Again, who has talked about "bans"?
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    I didn't consent to meeting his "character."
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    This is something that I was going to say, in slightly different terms. It's an excellent point. If LL really wants to see an increase in numbers, you know what they could do? Advertise the platform as being welcoming to real, literal Neo-Nazis. Seriously. There are lots of 'em around these days; there are entire social media platforms and boards devoted to them. I am sure there is a pretty large contingent who'd be delighted to strut around in SL wearing full regalia and having important meetings about white nationalism, the threat of feminism, how nasty trans and gay people are, etc. Or how about a*e players? There's an only partially tapped target demographic! As much as we all want SL to succeed, there are some people who are, frankly, not welcome here. There is a line that we pretty much all draw in that regard; the difficulty is that we draw it in different places. I have said, and I will say again, that I don't advocate banning Gor from SL. My line is actually a bit further back than that; I don't take Gor as seriously as I do actual, literal Neo-Nazis. But I'd be happy to see Gor gone from SL -- not because it's been banned, but because people have come to realize how toxic it actually is. In other words, I want it to die out because people choose not to engage in it anymore. And that's actually sort of what has happened. And I'm not at all sorry, personally, to see it happen, even if it means that a few thousand hardcore Goreans have left SL.
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    And I don't want to be -- in fact, I insist that I will NOT be -- dragged into someone else's RP because they can't distinguish between IC and OOC. Or because they aren't actually "RPing," but really believe this stuff. It's no different, in fact, than an exhibitionist wandering around in a sexually explicit way in places he hasn't been invited: I didn't consent to that, and I REFUSE to be a party to his fantasy without my consent. It's about CONSENT. I am NOT participating "by choice" when some basement-dwelling idiot decides to hurl insults at me, or "demands" that I call him "Master." I've had more than a few encounters with "Goreans" in my time here. Most of the women I knew who were involved in it were delightful -- a few were friends. Most got out of it eventually because 1) they came to understand that the inherent misogyny was not just "pretend" for some of the men, and/or 2) they got bored of RP that involved little more than them being verbally abused, or told to kneel somewhere for an hour naked and silent. The men on the other hand . . . I did have an extended conversation with one Gorean man, as I've mentioned in passing above, who wanted to tell me about his "woman-friendly" Gorean community. He was fine: civil and articulate. And then there was the one (I've mentioned this before here too) who IMed me in-world while I was in the midst of a discussion here on the forums about representations of sexual violence in SL, offering to r*pe me because he thought it would adjust my attitude. He didn't specify whether that was to be RP or not.
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    Well, the wonderful thing is that ANY thread can be magically conveniently converted into this topic!
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    lol Yes, you are Aubrey. You didn't realize? That's just even more adorable. 🙂
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    Hey, guys. Stop tormenting the mods!
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    And they'll all be saying, "If only we had been permitted to have sex in SL, we'd have stayed!"
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    If they are BOM, you might just need to reorder the layers in your "Appearances" box
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    You know, if SL finally ever fails, at least it will spare us from countless threads about how SL is failing, and how to fix it.
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    Citation required.
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    lol wow. Arielle "goes there" again.
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    I am not "reframing" anything -- I am quoting you verbatim. And you do it again here, just to prove my point: Not a single person, NO ONE, has said we should "take the sex out of Second Life." THAT is "reframing," Coffee. More than that, it's a gross misrepresentation.
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    So many citations required . . . and even were this so, so what? It gets boring -- I mean, really boring -- responding to this falsehood, Coffee. Not a single person here has said it is not, or should not be "allowed." We've said it is idiotic, which is nowhere near the same thing. You've made this misrepresentation, portraying people who happen not to agree with what has frankly become your idée fixe here as prudes, "pearl-clutchers," and elitists over and over again. It's an ad hominem that you have been employing consistently to clumsily avoid the real points people have been making, and it's frankly becoming insulting. While I too am happy to see Coffee back again, this thread looks as though it is about to become yet another sacrificial victim to her obsession, and I for one have better things, like calculating the thread count of my tee shirt, to do.
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    🙄
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    Wait . . . you mean I can actually get rid of them???? JUST BY PUSHING??? 😮 Get a grip Arielle. It was a joke, its non-serious nature underlined by the fact that I quite clearly have no way of "getting rid of the Goreans" even if I wanted to. I am on record, countless times here and going back more than 14 years, as being against bans on adult activities, including, yes, Gor. Doesn't mean I have to like it though!
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    Lol. Aubrey -- can I call you Aubrey? -- I think I love you. 🙂
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    This is both hilarious and kind of adorable. 🙂
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    On the subject of the change to the rules about what we can discuss, though, I have to say that I've been pleasantly surprised to discover that we can, in fact, discuss politics, "social justice," and all manner of things seemingly forbidden -- so long as they are discussed within the context of SL. So, talk about BLM in the real world? No. Which, ok . . . fine. Talk about the fact that a "publisher" of a popular SL magazine has recently publicly trashed a creator for selling a pro-BLM tee? That would, I'm pretty confident, be allowable here.
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    Without any question. At least one long-time forum perennial (and my best friend) no longer posts here at all because of the censorship and restrictions upon what we can discuss. That's not actually due to the mods themselves, though, who I think may be the best we've ever had -- at least in the post-Residents Answers era. Rather, it's the rules that they've been tasked with enforcing. I don't think the moderation here is harsher at all: on the contrary, I think it's far more context-sensitive and rational. While I'm sure that there have been times when Dyna or Quartz wanted to kick my butt all the way to the cornfield, the fact is that every warning or suspension I've ever had here came from . . . a Linden.
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