Second life

This article discuses the second life that a few people created online and some of the stereotypes when it comes to gender and the experiences they have to deal with online due to gender. Women avatars usually have big breast and look extremely skinny while men are buff and have six packs. In the experiment a few people created avatars and engaged in a second life online. In this virtual world one of the women felt very uncomfortable being represented as a female avatar. So, she decided to change her gender in her second life from female to male. I believe this was do to the fact that most online games are controlled by men. According to the article women are often  harassed and spoken to inappropriate online. If I was a women I would not want to participate in this second life game either all of the images that I seen of women are very explicit.