If you want to be a child, talk like a child, and all that goes with it, stay the fuck away from the adult continent and any adult content in SL.

Some of these kiddies RPers practically demand to be treated as children, refusing to break their RPing for even forum posts. Seriously, people who baby-talk on forums need to have their heads examined. No amount of RPing a kid on SL is going to address their issues, which most of them claim to have – “I had a bad childhood, so I am trying to capture it in SL” – these folks need mental health help in RL. All this insistence on forcing yourself into every facet of SL does is to aggravate the situation you are supposedly working to “fix”.

Quit being selfish.

When the outside world looks in and sees this type of thing happen, they will assume the worst because that’s what they want to see. I’d hate to see SL get shut down because some Linden decided it would be cool to invite a child av to a sim such as this and then the child av, without thinking decided it would be cool too. It’s obvious when you have idiots like penis boy dancing around, that a child shouldn’t be there and it gives the people playing children a bad name and they can be seen in a bad light.

Something needs to change and soon. As nice as Marianne is, if she or any other child av is going to go to a place such as this, then throw on the default female av and take a tour. If you choose to be a child av, then you choose to live the way a child lives, and with laws the way they are, they are just gonna haveta bite the bullet and abide by the rules.

Yeah…

What’s amazing to me is not that Marianne was there (whether i agree witht hat or not) but the wtisting of this whole thing onto the child avatar.

My understanding is the giant penis-man deliberately provocative, as was Vryl (who stripped herself and masturbated next to Marianne). And yet somehow this is Marianne’s fault/problem?

Zindra is EMPTY and there is an open invite on the login pages to visit this EMPTY CONTINENT. There’s no sexual activity there… unless you count the deliberate (and most probably staged) provocation by these so-called “freedom of expression” people.

If anything, i’d say Vryl and Mr Penis were in flagrant violation of the TOS, not to mention engaging in the exact sort of “nasty child porn/abuse” everyone is tossing around.

How come the debate/furor/hissy fit has shifted onto child avatars, and not some deliberately provocatibe, tasteless and morally disturbing idiot who would strip naked beside a child avatar and masturbate herself?
A deliberate setup? Most likely.

“Freedom of expression for adults” means only freedom of expression for YOU? Smells like… hypocrisy. I don’t, as a child avatar, go ANYWHERE a real child wouldn’t go, would feel bad about going or wouldn’t ever get in; that’s called real role play.

Conversely, many many “adult avatars” seem to think tp’ing into a clearly marked child sim, a playground or an adoption center, in nothing but latex and lingerie and then whining and screaming about “freedom of expression” when someone AR’s THEM is somehow a restriction of their rights.

So please, separate the issues here and quit using what was most probably a deliberate setup designed to feed someone’s asinine ego and inflated opinion of their own importance in the “feedom crusade” as a blunt instrument to bash all child avatars. You might make me mad enough to start bashing the groups I don’t particularly care for either.

But it seems that, child or not, I am more grownup than many.

And thanks to the Alphaville Herald and Jessica for providing some nice balance and engagement in this issue.

-Miso

ps- i agree that Marianne acted stupidly; she should have immediately AR’d the perverts. Fair is fair, after all.

But most people view it the opposite: Built explicitely for the uber-deviant naughty and it’s one giant sex-pile.

And that is what she is being accused of; being in the same info hub area, maybe 20m away, from a giant prim dancing penis.

@Adric; If you think I’m agreeing with Prok on this one, then I didn’t do my job right. I didn’t break down the sentencing, but I don’t think it matters after you brought it up. The scumbag was not going to be released from jail, he was still going to be in prison; the Court of Appeals was deciding if writing alone was child pornography and they said it was.

@in general; I think this not only touches on child avatars which still engender a huge response even if it is PG roleplaying involved, but also a more basic question of when is it appropriate to ask someone to change their avatar? Because I think the argument isn’t that Marianne was not allowed to view the content, which in my mind, a giant dancing penis isn’t that sexual, and she did, but rather how she viewed it changes if it was wrong or not.