Op/Ed: RL/SL Fashion Faux Pas
by Pixeleen Mistral on 04/03/07 at 7:55 pm
Why is Sabrina Doolittle’s RL typist is rocking a faded red shirt and a drooling dog in print?
by Tenshi Vielle, Fabulous Fashionista
Dear Second Lifers,
I have a rant to make.
Besides my intolerance for Linden Lifestyle’s Miss Sabrina Doolittle and her “never do wrong” attitude, her “fashion princess” facade, herein lies the truth.
A woman that can’t bother to do her hair. A woman that can’t bother to wear anything other than an ugly, faded red shirt while clutching her drooly dog. (Is that one of those damn cross-eyed boxers?)
Then again, a while ago, there was an event – an event that shall remain nameless – that advertised itself to the RL Fashion Impaired such as Miss Doolittle here as something they could attend in their pajama’s.
For god’s sakes people. Have some respect for yourself.
If you’re going to pretend to be someone else, don’t let us see the real you. However, if you ARE going to expose yourself as the “real you” – have the decency to be consistent. Nobody wants to see a washed up person parading around in SL as one of the main style icons.
Oh. One more thing.
If you feel the need to be snarky, mean, rude, or just to point out the truth – have the courtesy and the balls to leave your name. I do.
Signing off,
- Tenshi Vielle
Tenshi Vielle’s RL typist is rocking a black quilted down coat with faux-fur trim and denim jeans, along with her favorite high-heeled black boots
…and sometimes a sombrero
Artemis Fate
Mar 4th, 2007
I’ve never heard of her, what store does she run exactly?
Tenshi Vielle
Mar 4th, 2007
I’m not sure what shops she runs, but she runs the Linden Lifestyles blog, the blog that several SL designers would give their two front teeth to be featured in.
Caramel LeShelle
Mar 4th, 2007
What the heck is the point of this article, other than some crude, spiteful personal attack?
People in SL should hide themselves from the media in RL if they don’t look like their avatar and/or can’t be bothered to supply the RL media with a glamour shot?
Shame on the Second Life Herald for running something quite so facile as this. Utter rubbish.
Prokofy Neva
Mar 4th, 2007
What Would Jeska Do? Tsk tsk tsk.
C
Mar 4th, 2007
What an awful, ugly person you are.
Simondo Nebestanka
Mar 4th, 2007
Ummm.. wow. Haven’t seen this kind of nastiness for a while – is it warranted? Has Sabrina done anything in particular to you to deserve this treatment?
I don’t think she’s any less pretty than you, faded red shirt or not.
She does look happier.
Peace
OneBigRiver Stork
Mar 4th, 2007
I think Tenshi has just inherited a predujice from the RL fashion industry: If you don’t “look the part,” she says, you should not be allowed to participate. If Sabrina Doolittle is a fashionista, if people buy her clothes, and respect her opinion, then who cares what her typist chooses to wear? Is there a point to this, other than to personally attack a competitor?
There may be some valid point of debate here about marketing SL to outsiders, but I didn’t see it in the actual article.
OneBigRiver Stork
Mar 4th, 2007
Predujice? Sheesh. I think I’ve killed the credibility of my own post right from the first sentence.
Tenshi Vielle
Mar 5th, 2007
I hardly consider her a competitor, however, I will fully admit that with this article, I have sunk to the level of some people I wish not to have sunk to.
This was a pet peeve of mine going unscratched, and now I’ve said my piece. If you think I am an awful, ugly person, you should take a look in the mirror sometime.
**I think it’s horribly lazy to act so prissy in SL and then not give a shit in RL.**
That’s my point. It’s the same as someone who acts prissy in RL but lives on a farm with pigs running around in the house. That sort of thing. You see it in small towns all the time, and it’s utter stupidity.
If that doesn’t make sense, whatever. It’s late here, and I’m tired. I’ve had a busy day. *smirk*
Mackenzie Draper
Mar 5th, 2007
Using the Herald for personal attacks? Classy.
Prokofy Neva
Mar 5th, 2007
I’m looking this over now, and finding Sabrina’s RL person cute and sweet-loking, with a cute shirt, and even the dog is cute. Meanwhile, Tenshi is looking evil and vindictive. I think this post probably didn’t come out right for her…
Artemis Fate
Mar 5th, 2007
I still have no idea who, for that matter, either people are in this wacky fashionista battle.
don't need to appease you with this
Mar 5th, 2007
Well, the Harold never said it was a news source with class.
dildo baggins
Mar 5th, 2007
Douglas Adams had it right…put all the Fashionista’s in a rocket ship and fire them into the sun.
Fortunately for the rest of us, Style is independant from fashion..something the clothes horse look at me I’m so fucking kewl crowd don’t quite understand.
[add the politicians and web blingtards as well, if there's room...ah, better not forget the lawyers either, and maybe parking inspectors though the poor bustards are reduced to doing such a job to live...]
Nacon
Mar 5th, 2007
Well, Sabrina does look like a bum in that picture, but of course, that may seem to be rude to say something like that when Tenshi can’t do anything as much Sabrina can.
So, the real question is… did Tenshi got jealous of Sabrina because she has skill in graphic designing and success in marketing?
Bling Bling Bingo!
Oh by the way…. Tenshi, I know you’re trying to prove with fashion sense and hair job to actually look good but… WEBCAM!? come on…. DO IT WITH CLASS, not DIY webcam shot. I mean …DAMN! don’t be a ho.
Nacon
Mar 5th, 2007
PS: You look like a minor, Tenshi. …No, I’m not saying you look “young & sexy”, you look like a little girl who hasn’t pass High School yet.
SunnyMarie
Mar 5th, 2007
Tenshi, your self-confidence and self-esteem issues are showing. Tuck them back in quickly (apologise) or become known as someone to steer well clear of.
“Oh yeahhhh! (insert hair flip here)I’m so hot!! (with hair that is too thin, smallish glasses to try to make myself appear intelligent and wry, lumps of fat all around my mouth, a potato nose, and a sour-puss look on my face)- but, that’s ok, because I am not ashamed in the least to be part of this whole narcissist generation! I’m special but not because of what I’ve accomplished. I’m soooo verrrry special because my mommy and daddy told me I was one-hundred times a day.”
See, anyone can be viciously superficial, but they probably won’t have many friends after people figure that out.
Soooo petty. I hope you look back at the person you are now in about twenty years and shudder to think what an ugly person you were (if you grow up AT ALL by then). Better yet, perhaps your face will be disfigured in an accident, and you will have to go the rest of your life looking like Freddy Kruger. That would be poetic justice.
What the fuck Herald? This is an all-time low. You guys are allowing contributors to personally attack other players now… Bravo!! I thought you people were against these sort of RL attacks? Didn’t some of your staffers here just about come unglued when people were doing it to Prok Neva on other sites?
Dear Herald management,
I’d like to do a piece on Prok Neva using his RL pic and make disparaging remarks about his RL looks. I’ll be emailing you and then waiting for the return email confirming that you will allow that.
Yeah, and I own an ice cream stand in Darfur that I will sell you CHEAP!
Thank you, warm regards, Sunny
Here’s a current article which describes Tenshi’s malady in detail…
College students think they’re so special -
Study finds alarming rise in narcissism, self-centeredness in ‘Generation Me’
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17349066/
Btw, I am a college student myself, and thank GOD my parents didn’t raise me to think that the sun rises just because wonderful, beautiful me woke up in the morning. I can’t tell you how many people my age I have disassociated myself with because they act like Tenshi here. Tenshi, sweety, we would try to look in the mirror, but we don’t want to be bitten, clawed and scratched because we tried to take away your favourite toy.
Good luck with your esteem issues Tenshi, I’m sure that mommy and daddy will pay for therapy, all the while telling you how it isn’t your fault, and how special you are (if they already aren’t).
Simondo Nebestanka
Mar 5th, 2007
Personal attacks aside, a quick glance at Tenshi’s blog reveals the level we are dealing with here … “BRITNEY SHAVES SOMETHING OTHER THAN HER OVERUSED PUSSY” (I did not capitalise) … to grab the attention on the Feb 18th entry.
Now that’s all well and good, but c’mon Herald, are your other writers happy to be lumped in with this? Tenshi’s piece here is op/ed but it’s still in the Herald.
This little drama will be good for advertising revenue but just take a step back and look at the long term. Plus I’m not quite sure Tenshi is mature enough to deal with the crap she’s going to get over this. Careful not to take advantage of someone’s naivety to sell some ad space.
Am I then being naive in suggesting that it’s not too late to pull this piece? Don’t file under “Censorship”, file under “Yeah that probably wasn’t a great story to go with”.
Peace
Nacon
Mar 5th, 2007
Aww Sunny Marie, that’s solid and cute. Mowed her down very nicely done! Ahh, I should try being cute with another retard… but that’s not really me though. Anywho, nice burnage work, maybe you should take her job?
Urizenus
Mar 5th, 2007
“What the heck is the point of this article, other than some crude, spiteful personal attack?”
You mean you want *more*? Some people are never satisified.
Tenshi Vielle
Mar 5th, 2007
lmfao.
Simondo Nebestanka
Mar 5th, 2007
If by “lmfao” you mean:
People, gone are the days when a simple matter of judgement would have prevented a story (under scrutiny, bereft of relevance to this virtual world) from being afforded space here to highlight the non-issue that one particular resident has like, totally misrepresented herself in SL by making her avatar beautiful and then having the audacity to hand out fashion tips. Those days are just.. gone. Deal, yo!
.. I guess, technically, I would agree with your point.
But if by “lmfao” you actually mean:
‘Lets make friends all over’
.. well that’s so nice of you! On behalf of Sabrina, we accept your apology!
Urizenus
Mar 5th, 2007
My thoughts: Tenshi took things farther than I would have gone by extending the fashionista cattiness to the typist rather than the avi. A RL tabloid would have no problems doing this, but the Herald tends to maintain a fire wall between the typist and the avi for the most part, and when we talk about the typist we are ususally nice. Well, maybe it’s good to have people like Tenshi pushing things further. That way when St. Peter calls me to the skybox of all skyboxes there will be people left behind to make sure that lots of people still hate the Herald.
All that having been said, I still can’t believe Tenshi dissed the poor doggie!
SunnyMarie
Mar 5th, 2007
I don’t think you understood that I was mocking her superficiality Nacon. That is not my disposition. Note the quotes surrounding my “rant”, it’s a hypothetical attribution. I am trying to illustrate that all of us have flaws if one WANTS to find them.
Tenshi, that was exactly the type of repsonse from someone who waxes somewhat bewildered by the fact that she can’t get anyone to speak to her at college, gets fired because she doesn’t get along with her boss, and can’t shovel the drive without ending up in a fight with her father. Yes, I went and took a look at your blog, and what I read goes hand in hand with your juvenile behaviour here, and left me with an image of Paris Hilton in my mind. SHOVELING! BUT DAD! I’M A FASHION EXPERT! DO YOU WANT ME TO MESS UP MY JACKET WITH THE FAUX-FUR!!!??
But… those situations aren’t YOUR fault, are they princess? I imagine they never have been…
Fiend Ludwig
Mar 5th, 2007
I deeply respect the Herald’s commitment to printing scathing satire, informed criticism, and ribald reflection on the the oddity that is Second Life. This article, however, is none of those things – it is simply a hurtful personal attack based on a superficial evaluation of the physical appearance of another person. It shows terrible prejudice – *I think you are ugly, therefore you have no worth, I think I am pretty, therefore am a much better person than you.*
Shame.
Fiend Ludwig.
Morgana Fillion
Mar 5th, 2007
Wow, I’ve seen the light! All those avatars in SL except Sabrina look just like they do in real life, Tenshi routinely runs around in public in RL just like she does in SL, and every lesbian in SL is a woman in RL! Shame on Sabrina for being the lone element that isn’t exactly like RL!
Yes, this post is meanspirited. Yes, it’s also a horribly shallow display of appearance based prejudice. But what’s really annoying is how pointless it is. Of course people in SL don’t look exactly like they do in RL – duh!
What’s cool about Sabrina’s article is that she did not get herself all artificially dolled up for the picture – that, my friends, would have been mockworthy and transparent. Instead, she displays a healthy sense of self-worth, and a solid understanding of the difference between her Second Life and her Real Life. I suggest Tenshi give it a try.
I love the Herald, but wow. Edit for pointlessness, please? Next you’ll be giving us articles accusing the moon in RL of not always being full.
Morgana Fillion
Mar 5th, 2007
…run around in *nekkid* in public…
(and Tenshi, those glasses make you look cross eyed. I trust your avatar is equally cross eyed? Hard to tell under the sombrero.)
Kitty O'Toole
Mar 5th, 2007
Criticism that is valid is always a welcome read in editorials, but was this really necessary? Why do you feel the need to comment on the RL appearance of someone, then post a picture of yourself? Is is to say that you’re better looking, therefore your argument is sound?
The irony of this is that you seem to be a highly capable writer. Validity in editorial is only worthwhile though when the subject matter is sound. This wasn’t a good choice, everyone is entitled to reflect their opinions in print but you stop barely short of a personal attack and that is really not fair..However, I must question the Editorial decision to print this? One of the whole points of SL is that you can be whatever you want to be, does it matter what ‘Sabrina looks like in RL?’ To me, not at all- her website is an enjoyable read and she writes exceptionally well on her subject matter. That’s been proved by the longevity and success of the Linden Lifestyles site. Job done if you ask me! If you don’t like, don’t read it, and don’t write articles such as this, because they reflect really badly on you, and that’s a shame.
Oh and incidentally if the reason for publishing this article was to generate a response then congratulations, you’ve done just that and achieved your goal. ( Oh and it would be nice to see your Editor place a comment to justify printing your article and support you as a writer, because after all you’re getting a lot of justified grief for your copy?)
Aimee Weber
Mar 5th, 2007
I think this is a great direction for The Herald. Keep up the good work.
By the way, is Tenshi Uri’s version of Amy Weebler? Nothing draws readers like cartoonish villainy.
Tenshi Vielle
Mar 5th, 2007
I believe the majority of you missed the entire point. It’s about hypocrisy. When you’re a public figure, you’d better walk your talk.
In the meantime, however… It pleases me that you took time out of your day to read my entire journal thus far. Thank you!
Maria Malone
Mar 5th, 2007
i’ve got to laugh at your comment Mackenzie considering your boyfriend (marselles wallace aka jc soprano) always used the herald in a vindictive manner as well or tried to for the most part. poor lil wanksta boy has no class either so before you go pointing your finger miss mackenzie stop and take a good look at with whom you are involved with in RL/SL. *waits for the wanksta himself to get on here and start his usual whining of how he had “class”* – classic example of a hypocrite just like this article!
lol.
Morgana Fillion
Mar 5th, 2007
How is Sabrina Doolitter (avatar fashionista) not ‘walking her talk’? You continue to make no sense, child. Her avatar stays in character. The article (try to get the difference here) was about the person behind the avatar, who stayed true to herself too, by not trying to make her physical appearance match that of the avatar that is already well known.
If you truly don’t get that difference, you need to turn off the computer and get out in the real-life sunshine for awhile until your head clears.
You are stretching for a point that no one agrees with, and your arguments for it are so full of holes it’s hard to even make sense of what you’re attempting to say. It happens. Shrug, admit you’re wrong if you’re mature enough to do so, and move on. You don’t match your SL and RL up point for point, including appearance, neither does anyone else, neither should anyone else. You blew it, that’s all.
But if you really still want to try to maintain it, do start a campaign to stomp out all those vampires, go after Bizarre Berry for his universe avatar (it’s not to scale! Hypocrite! He’s well known so it’s not allowed! I’ll bet he doesn’t really have planets revolving around him, either!) and make sure you get your own avatar looking a lot more like you do. Photograph your own skin, just to be sure. No really – you go. It’ll be fun.
Amelia Abernathy
Mar 5th, 2007
Second Life is a role playing game…it’s called “Second” Life. It is pathetic that you have projected your lack of a first life into your Second Life experience. Get a handle on those jealousy and envy demons…they’ll eat you alive while Sabrina lives well. It’s women like you that are a discredit to the female gender.
Gala Alva
Mar 5th, 2007
and who is the world is that ” myspace kid ” tenshi ” on here? rollin’ a spitfire in a wanna be correct english til the “Yo! part”. listen up chic, i careless who the hell you are on SL ( never heard of that troll), but one thing is for sure, don’t flame other peoples looks, when YOU look like the love child of ” Woody Allen & Martha Stewart”!
seriously, who hired you to write for this herald? why don’t you write on myspace, how cool and fashionable you are?
haha, well next time you pose for the world to laugh at you, i would suggest a foundation on that skin of yours. maybe some REAL clothes instead of your what.. Wally – World – Preen Threads. plus when you wear (* what a fashion faux pas *) , a SOMBRERO, adjust that dam mugg, so it wont look like a retard 2 prim box up on yours.
if someone knows about fashion hun, you are not IT. if someone claims to be all cutsey cute – you’re definetly NOT it! now safe your idiotic comments to your own post, and perhaps get someone like sabrina or an sl fashion consultant- to help YOU out, before you make a total assface out of yourself. (mah bad… damage has been done), anyhow – you’re none but a angsty kid and someone needs to move that barbie’s ass of yours to the teengrid!
got some else to say missy? bring it right to my blog and i’ll give you another dose of reality!
haha,
ciao ciao
Szentasha Salome
Mar 5th, 2007
I for one am very dissapointed in the Herald for standing behind this article. There is a difference between opinion/editorial and an attack piece, this being the later. The wonderful thing about Second Life is that people are not judged by physical appearance as they are in the real world. Creativity, intellect, personality can be expressed without threat of discrimination based on how old, unattractive, or unstylish you may be in RL. Most people I know in SL are not as young, beautiful, and stylish as their avatars, with the possible exception of Miss Vielle. For shame, Herald.
Anon
Mar 5th, 2007
Wow… fashion people are really unkind.
Carl Metropolitan
Mar 5th, 2007
Not classy at all. I don’t know Sabrina Doolittle, but it is clear from this article that Tenshi Vielle could not find anything sustantive to criticize Ms. Doolittle over.
Marsellus Wallace
Mar 5th, 2007
Hey Tenshi,
Wanksta? haha I love the Brittish. As far as I can tell the only country where people have such a hard time deciphering real life from game life. Anyway, what do I have to do with Mackenzie’s statement or this story? Who gives a flying fuck whether or not someone has fashion sense in their first life? This is called Second Life for a reason. What you think I am a mobster in my first life? Don’t be ridiculous. Don’t be pissed off becuase your story was one sided, a complete waste of news space and frankly isn’t news at all and people called you on it. I’ll leave it at that. I assure you that you don’t want me weighing in more than that Tenshi… Trust me.
Sincerely,
Marsellus Wallace
*dusts off Herald posting shoulders*
P.S. Let’s see how many real life personal attacks this post brings (which is everyones point). What the hell does real life have to do with game life? Simple as that. Go ahead Tenshi… Reply and watch you prove my point. =)
Chiara Stella
Mar 5th, 2007
I can barely stand to exert any effort into commenting on the pathetic child who wrote this egocentric, cruel piece of editorial nonsense, but in the interest of complete disclosure, I find it interesting that she fails to mention that she has just announced the start-up of her own fashion blog, which means she is hoping to become Sabrina Doolittle’s direct competition. Sheds a whole lot more light on her vindictiveness, doesn’t it? I guarantee I won’t be reading it, would much rather read something written by an intelligent adult (ie Sabrina) who knows the sun doesn’t shine out her ass.
Marsellus Wallace
Mar 5th, 2007
Quick correction. I realized after I posted that the names post a bit differently than I remember. My comments were not meant for you Tenshi, they were meant for Maria. Everything still applies, just realized I directed my comment towards the wrong person.
My apologies Tenshi, although I don’t agree with your story, it was Maria I was retorting to. =)
Marsellus Wallace
P.S. Still waiting for the awesome one liners!!
Tenshi Vielle
Mar 5th, 2007
Ah, but the sun DOES shine out of her ass! Lest we forget, she doesn’t have the time of day to thank the designers that drop things on her. She doesn’t want to start a dozen conversations that may never end. Nay, “we” are too good for this.
I’m done rolling in the dirt with you guys. I’m not cut out for the Herald standards of dirt, I suppose; and y’all just aren’t getting the point.
Heather
Mar 5th, 2007
I love how commenters think it’s really mean and over the top that Tenshi insults Sabrina’s RL appearance, then proceed to insult Tenshi’s RL appearance.
I, for one, find this pretty funny. Like that South Park episode where they try to beat the uber-nerd in RL but the legendary World of Warcraft player who’s so powerful and unstoppable, yet sits at a computer eating chips and makes himself even fatter.
The discrepancy is funny, simply because of the SL “industry” Sabrina is in: fashion. If she were anything else, it wouldn’t be funny. She makes a tiny living off of making a cartoon on a screen look “cool” and hip. She has a beautiful avatar, and then look at the RL pic.
urizenus
Mar 5th, 2007
wow, 40+ comments AND we got marsellus out of posting retirement AND we got Aimee to comment on a post having nothing to do with Prok!
*inks Tenshi to a contract extension*
Chiara Stella
Mar 5th, 2007
If you HAD a point, someone, somewhere, might get it. As for the comment about Sabrina not “thanking” people who drop items on her for review, I work in advertising and PR in RL and have never expected a thank-you when I drop unsolicited promotional materials on someone, nor do I expect them to offer up a positive review every time, or baby me by explaining why they did or didn’t choose to read my press release. Do you expect a thank-you from your professors when you turn a term paper in more or less on time? Everyone’s just doing their job. It’s the business world, little girl. Other grownups will understand.
Pensioner
Mar 5th, 2007
YEAH LITTLE GIRL
GOOD JOB AT BEING LITTLE
YOUNG PERSON
Morgana Fillion
Mar 5th, 2007
Well that didn’t take long.
And if your point was simply that you don’t like her, why didn’t you just say so:
“I’m stating that she isn’t walking her talk. Why am I saying that? Well, for being a prissy, stuck up person as she is in SL, not thanking the designers for fear of “starting conversations she doesn’t have time for” – she sure doesn’t look like she is Paris Hilton in RL, queen of thanklessness. She has what psychology would probably call delusions of grandeur. Maybe if she started being nicer to the designers of SL, I might consider retracting my article. Thank them, for god’s sakes. They put time and effort in to make this stuff, and it may be something they enjoy. Manners are at an utmost need for that gal.”
See? You found a point. Sadly, it has nothing at all to do with her appearance.
As to my comment about your appearance…no, wait, about what your fashion choice does to your appearance, I just want you to live by your own standard, since you’re so hot on bitching that someone else isn’t. Make your avatar look like you!
I’d say see ya, but as soon as you stop entertaining me with this subject, I’m going to forget you exist.
Marsellus Wallace
Mar 5th, 2007
Uri,
Miss me? lol When we going to go for another cruise on the Herald’s yaught? hehehe
Marsellus Wallace
urizenus
Mar 5th, 2007
Sure we missed you Mars, we’re drama junkies after all.
Marsellus Wallace
Mar 5th, 2007
Drama Junkies? Fughedaboudit! lol Drama junkie is a bad term… I prefer the term Soap Opera Endowed. In some rare cases, Springer Enabled can be used in it’s place. hehe
Marsellus Wallace
Tenshi Vielle
Mar 5th, 2007
lmfao.
SOMEBODY GIVE THEM A CHAIR! Springer Enabled!