Sunday, February 01, 2004
Virtual Bodies
The story of Julie, the disabled woman was kind of sickening. It reminded of the issues with race pretenders, and it is no different. People pretending to be disabled is like a satire on the actually disabled, it is irritating, but then again the cyberworld was pretty much created for these other identites and it is horrible. people need to realize that just because it is not a physical being you can still hurt people, regardless of the realm of life, virtual or real, lying is not accepted in the majority of cultures.
The story of Julie, the disabled woman was kind of sickening. It reminded of the issues with race pretenders, and it is no different. People pretending to be disabled is like a satire on the actually disabled, it is irritating, but then again the cyberworld was pretty much created for these other identites and it is horrible. people need to realize that just because it is not a physical being you can still hurt people, regardless of the realm of life, virtual or real, lying is not accepted in the majority of cultures.
