Everyone is equal on LJ
Jan. 3rd, 2008 11:36 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mymatedave10I've no doubt that many people more eloquent than myself have commented on this before, possibly even myself but if I stop writing and go back to check I might lose interest. The thought occurred to me while trawling through the depths of LJ.
Livejournal, and other free blogs are, to exaggerate the point, the very embodiment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. Now it may be disrespectful to compare an online network of diaries to his struggle for racial equality that is still, in many ways unfulfilled but the metaphor works for me at the moment so please bare with me.
The content of your mind is all that matters. You can be male, female, black, white, rich, poor, incredibly gorgeous or look like you've been brutally attacked by someone with an ugly stick and unless you post a picture of yourself online not only will no one know, no one will care either.
This applies to online gaming and online forums as well, when we meet people in RL we make automatic and even subconscious decisions about that person, he/she is disabled/foreign/ ugly/messy/has a speech impediment, etc. It can get in the way of hearing what that person has to say.
I recently read a post about J Michael Straczynski, where he said that during filming the extras who played the Narn and the Centauri who only hang out with those other extras who dressed as they were on any given day.
What's my point in writing this? I thought it cool. And it makes me look deep.
Livejournal, and other free blogs are, to exaggerate the point, the very embodiment of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "I have a dream" speech. Now it may be disrespectful to compare an online network of diaries to his struggle for racial equality that is still, in many ways unfulfilled but the metaphor works for me at the moment so please bare with me.
The content of your mind is all that matters. You can be male, female, black, white, rich, poor, incredibly gorgeous or look like you've been brutally attacked by someone with an ugly stick and unless you post a picture of yourself online not only will no one know, no one will care either.
This applies to online gaming and online forums as well, when we meet people in RL we make automatic and even subconscious decisions about that person, he/she is disabled/foreign/ ugly/messy/has a speech impediment, etc. It can get in the way of hearing what that person has to say.
I recently read a post about J Michael Straczynski, where he said that during filming the extras who played the Narn and the Centauri who only hang out with those other extras who dressed as they were on any given day.
What's my point in writing this? I thought it cool. And it makes me look deep.
