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I'm male but also a Women's Studies Major, and this article was particularly interesting in light of performative gender theory (re: Judith Butler). Butler believes that gender is a performance (usually not a conscious performance, but one built on social norms), not innate. Here, we have...

Really appreciated the article. The insight into avatar-human relations was really interesting, particularly the progression from objectification (focus upon appearance) to personalization (felt the need to protect; empathized) to identification (feelings of guilt, shame, feeling as if you were...