Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life, have said that their hope is to eventually make the technology behind their virtual world more of an open standard, thus allowing the metaverse they've created to grow exponentially. Coupled with SL's basic premise of user created content, it's not inconceivable that in the future sophisticated MMOs could be built on top of Second Life by third party game companies.
Anatomically, men can get away with wearing less than women but in our society, they rarely ever do.
On the other hand, women have more to hide yet many find it completely appropriate to wear things like mini-skirts and itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, yellow, polka-dot bikinis in public.
Why are ridiculously perfect portrayals of the male form universally accepted by both sexes when ridiculously perfect portrayals of the female form are not?
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Linden Labs, the creators of Second Life, have said that their hope is to eventually make the technology behind their virtual world more of an open standard, thus allowing the metaverse they've created to grow exponentially. Coupled with SL's basic premise of user created content, it's not inconceivable that in the future sophisticated MMOs could be built on top of Second Life by third party game companies.
Anatomically, men can get away with wearing less than women but in our society, they rarely ever do. On the other hand, women have more to hide yet many find it completely appropriate to wear things like mini-skirts and itty-bitty, teensy-weensy, yellow, polka-dot bikinis in public.
Why are ridiculously perfect portrayals of the male form universally accepted by both sexes when ridiculously perfect portrayals of the female form are not?