avatar - by nancy - general zuo's chicken

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at birth i permanently rolled a chinese girl avatar. to the chinese, one of them. to the americans, a chinese. i could run away. fly to another planet. rip my soul out. and still be a chinese girl. there could be countless diversity events. quota upon quota of ensuring 'gender equity' but i will still not understand what it's like to be in another body. live in another body and go through life as another avatar. in the real world we cannot switch avatars.1 but in vr we can. we can live in another body. listen to an anime girl talk in a guy voice and not question it. casually listen to a…

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