Emily Fields — Post 6 Grrrl
by Alphaville Herald on 28/07/09 at 12:02 am
[Post 6 is an attempt to present some of the incredible variety of avatars that people create to represent themselves in the virtual world. With such a huge range of genders, races and species, Second Life is an especially rich environment for finding avatars that represent whole segments of populations. Emily Fields contacted me about modeling and as I was chatting with her I realized that she represents a giant segment- "Human Teen," a segment that most of us automatically steer well clear of to avoid anything that smacks of ageplay. As Emily swears that she and her typist are both over the age of 18 at all times, without further adieu we present this week's Post 6 Model, Emily Fields. -Timothy Morpork]
Hiya. I'm Emily and I'm a bit of a rarity in Second Life. I don't have a tail or huge breasts or wings or superpowers (unless super-cuteness is a power). I'm just a normal eighteen year-old girl with normal proportions. So what do I like to do? Normal girl stuff: I shop and party and go clubbing and, you know, just hang out. What more could anyone want?
Yeah, I have glasses and, yes, it does mean I'm super-smart. But I also need them to see.
Men in second life seem to be accustomed to dealing with girls that are nymphomaniacs, slaves, or airheads (or all of the above). Consequently, when I am not immediately receptive to crude pick-up methods, I sometimes come off as a bitch. The thing is, I'm not a bitch, I'm just a regular person with regular wants and desires. When someone approaches me with unreasonable requests, I react accordingly. It's the second law of motion. It's physically impossible for me to do otherwise!
Now, just because I'm not a bitch doesn't mean I'm easy-going. Sometimes I am, but I tend to get fussy when I don't get my way. Luckily there's a few people willing to put up with that (some are morewilling than others).
Okay, this doesn't seem quite long enough,so more about shopping. I love getting new clothes, so much. I havehundreds of pieces I still havn't even managed to fit into an outfityet, but whenever I'm not out with people I'm always playing aroundwith them trying to figure out a new outfit. Unfortunately, since Post6 expects some nudity, I wasn't able to show off many of them. Ipicked my favourite of the moment for the first shot.
This is myfirst time posing for anything that's getting published, so do try tobe kind. I'm personally quite pleased with how the pictures turned outand hopefully everyone enjoys them. I had a lot of fun modeling andhope to do more in the future!
<3 Em.
oh dear
Jul 30th, 2009
god, you’re all so fucking dramatic aren’t you? LOL! Grow up you lunatics.
“CYBER STALKING!!!!!!!!”
“BULLYING!!!!!!!!!!”
“ABUSE!!!!!!!!!!!”
Get some fucking perspective.
marilyn murphy
Jul 30th, 2009
@ we.
hi. what you say is true. what i said is true, “more than most ever have”. as to the tone of the comments. i am paraphrasing here, as i dont know the actual quote, “i don’t mind what the talk is about me, as long as they talk about me.”
it’s awful when someone harrasses a post sixx model in sl proper. that’s just totally out of bounds, and not at all what i am reffering to. that needs to be reported, and hopefully LL will do something about it.
Jessica Holyoke
Jul 30th, 2009
I was a Penance Post Sixx and I didn’t catch too much grief over my posing.
Scylla Rhiadra
Jul 30th, 2009
Carmen is probably too generous in her defence of me (for which, however, I thank her) … I know that I have occasionally allowed my anger at a few of the responses here to surface, and to any I HAVE attacked personally, I apologize.
A few key points here, though. My REAL target here has always been Post 6, and the way it represents women. Insofar as Lusty and Emily both bear some responsibility for that, I have criticized them. It has never been about THEM, personally: when I have focussed upon them here, it has been about how they presented themselves in their Post 6 profiles. It has CERTAINLY never been about “hate.”
Lusty, I thought, showed real grace under pressure in her response to the postings on her page: I was impressed.
As for what has been directed at Emily here, and in-world, but especially the latter, I am frankly appalled. Being harassed in-world can be an enormously upsetting and disturbing experience (whatever “oh dear” thinks); as someone who has been the recipient of some pretty vicious harassment through IMs, I speak with some experience. Harassment IS about hate; it is, frankly, a form of psychological and emotional assault.
Emily has done NOTHING that warrants this kind of attack. I hope that she is responding vigorously through abuse reports. In the meantime, I ask everyone here to take a moment to gain some perspective on what this has really all been about.
Bunny Brickworks
Jul 30th, 2009
‘In the meantime, I ask everyone here to take a moment to gain some perspective on what this has really all been about.’ – Nice, Scylla!
May I remind you? This has been about an obviously cranky wannabe feminist on her crusade to clean the internet from the objectification of pixel women. Did anyone say ‘pathetic’?
(we)call(bull)sh!t
Jul 30th, 2009
“As for what has been directed at Emily here, and in-world, but especially the latter, I am frankly appalled. Being harassed in-world can be an enormously upsetting and disturbing experience (whatever “oh dear” thinks); as someone who has been the recipient of some pretty vicious harassment through IMs, I speak with some experience. Harassment IS about hate; it is, frankly, a form of psychological and emotional assault.”
Its people like you and the vast majority in SL that keep counselors and psychiatrists FAT & SASSY, and rolling in the dough.
Dont be getting all philosophical on us now. Your SL hang-ups are ALL YOUR OWN. Get a life and balance out the BS, otherwise, we will call it out on ya every time! Period.
We
Jul 31st, 2009
marilyn,
“it’s awful when someone harrasses a post sixx model in sl proper. that’s just totally out of bounds, and not at all what i am reffering to. that needs to be reported, and hopefully LL will do something about it.”
reality check. the herald is notorious for propagating this type of behavior. It draws much needed attention and hence, traffic. chat log publishing, pitting folks against each other and general disrespect for acceptable RL behaviors runs rampant on this site. get use to it. LL doesn’t care nor will they expend any cost or energy to squelch the nonsense. what LL chooses to ignore others have banded together on in an effort to take appropriate steps against and squarely on the shoulders of those that have it coming (names omitted)
Jumpman Lane
Aug 1st, 2009
hehehehehe i unno how many times igotta say the same ol same ol but when u get tired of this tard and fire him i’ll have some one of my staff bitch this post 6 thing up for ya every once and again nocharge
Uh-huh
Aug 3rd, 2009
Jumpman-
I’d say based on the number of comments and the “ratings” of the last two post 6 columns over there on the sidebar, you and your pathetic staff will be waiting a long time before the Herald gets tired of the photog they have now.
Where is whatever you do available? I know you do some sort of crappy porn thing, but I’ve never seen it, which is probably a lot of why you apparently keep offering free services to the Herald that they don’t take you up on. It’s a pretty huge fail if you’re offering yourself free and still rejected by this blog.
lol
Ener Hax
Aug 10th, 2009
wow, Emily, ya sure struck a nerve! well, good for you, it’s all traffic and i guess gives some peeps a way to vent. funny that someone linked to a blog post of mine on profiles
well, you have a great attitude and, imo, an avatar is no diff than a forum screen name. it’s just another way to communicate. at least isl, you can be creative and build stuff and hold meetings and do education (like 400 universities do)
bet most of the negative commentators here are in facebook. the average fb user is in there over 30 hours a month. and you can’t make anything original in it, just do stoopid farmville or super poke each other =p
namaste =)
Bucky Bee
Aug 12th, 2009
You know, someone is either 18+, or <18…. and supposedly Second Life is only for 18+ real-life people… so if someone wants to present themselves as EXACTLY 18, are they or are they not old enough to be sexual under SL’s standards? Freaking yes, and get over it. It’s a yes or no answer…. 18+? Or, <18? If the avi is 18, she’s 18+, and therefore… (waits for the slow-witted prudes to “think” for an hour or two)
What about all the actual 18 year old real-life people who have totally age-corresponding avatars in SL? Are they suddenly 12, because they’re not 25? Are they also to be barred from sexual content in SL? For what freaking reason? Jeez… there are some fundamentalist wacko nutjob self-loathing moralistic sex-haters you just can’t please.