On Oct 25, 2010, at 1:48 PM, Sal Armoniac wrote: > Goofy at Disneyland is a good example ... so the 28 year old man is really > only acting; he is engaging, for a fee, the crowds of people only as Goofy > and not as himself. Whether he feels liberated hugging children is irrelevant > to the job
I was actually considering the feelings of the parents of the children -- in the sense that the mask makes abhorrent behavior desirable. (Clearly referring to the subset of parents who'd find a 28-year-old male reciprocating warm, loving gestures with a child they have never met abhorrent; I think most parents' knee-jerk reaction today is to think that behavior is risky or dangerous.) Tangentially relating to the other example, if an adult makes a child persona for interacting with other children online, the scenario is considerable different. Thus, it's not the nature of the mask per se as it is the intent of the puppeteer -- or rather, the perceived intent of the puppeteer. It appears to me that I was unintentionally derailing the conversation toward one of how the law perceives chronological age. So let me step away from that. My other example weakly had to do with the idea of avatars to further be puppeteers of other avatars in that I realized a complex layer of avatars wasn't really feasible (as I said in my example about an engineer operating [I'm shocked "puppet" isn't also a verb] an interpretive dance avatar versus me operating an engineer avatar operating a dance avatar collapsing to me operating the dance avatar directly). I was going off-topic with an example of a human 15-year-old girl creating a 37-year-old male persona online which then creates its own 15-year-old girl persona. ---Jason Olshefsky http://JayceLand.com/ http://JayceLand.com/blog/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/r-spec?hl=en.
