I recently changed my race and gender in 2L. When I created an account in 2L I automatically chose to be a women. I don't know why I did this. I also chose to make it look some what like myself (I was limited because I don't know how to use the appearance function on 2L). I had never even thought about my automatic choice until I was asked to change it. I thought about how I could have been anything I wanted to and I tried to replicate myself.
I did not notice much of a difference in the way that I was treated. Other people mostly ignored me (a fury did hit on me though). I would follow people and put out a general message and no one said anything to me. I tried going to crowed and popular places (a mall, a dance party, and a free sex place) but this did not make much of a difference. When my avatar was a women I think that I was more approachable. People would come up to me and say hi or ask me questions.
At first, I did not notice that changing into a male was a matter of pressing a button in the appearance box. I had originally tried to change my original avatar to a man manually (I looked transsexual and a little scary. This may be part of the reason I was ignored at first. I finally found the button and made a more normal looking man). As a man I made myself very muscular (the preset body was to skinny and weak looking). I made the tone of my skin much darker than it had been before. My other features were preset and stored in my library.
After this experience, I will definitely make my avatar a women again (and try to make it resemble myself). I feel more comfortable as a women. I think that it is more fun as a women because it is more fun dressing them and trying to make it resemble yourself.
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