ive also been pretty interrested in representations of gender and race on
the net in 3d multiuser worlds and note that most are tall white and male,
or women with impossible breasts..and wonder if anyone does reseacrh into
race in online worlds. i know edward castronova just did a study (which i
habevent read all of) which found women avatars (with identical skills )
are worth 30 percent less in $ terms than male avatars when sold .. i was
wondering about african, japanese chinese, arab, koori, sami, native
american, maori, etc avaTars ?