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Found this interesting article! "Lunning believes the reason these sequences are so popular among queer folks and women is because as children, they became immediately aware of their difference "and [their] need to hide it from others." They can see themselves in the young girls of shows like "Sailor Moon" who are "automatically [relegated] to a second, if not third-class future," she says. "That some sort of magic transforms them into powerful agents in society who tend to right wrongs, astound the bullies who have persecuted them, and become recognized as a force to be reckoned with, this is their own most profound desire."”

One of the lecturers in our department used to say he’d conduct his office hours via Second Life - which seemed a hopeful, but ultimately misguided idea.

It seemed to me that, like a lot of Silicon Valley creations, "Second Life" offered the promise of a revolution, but merely delivered a normative, if slightly recontextualized reality. Another transfer of wealth with good PR. Instead of U.S. dollars, we had Linden Dollars. In a world where everyone could fly, people still built stairs.