# Gender RL vs. gender in-MOO

Joe Shaw (joeshaw@eskimo.com)
Wed, 23 Aug 1995 17:46:50 PDT

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    > Do you have any policy that enforces that the gender
    > people use in your MOO must match the gender they
    > have in Real Life ?
    > That's to say, that a female person always has a
    > female character and that a male person always has
    > a male character.
    >
    > And, if you have this policy, do you spell it
    > out clearly or do you suppose it is obvious and
    > self evident ?

    Gee, yeah, I make everyone on my role-playing MOO play their real life
    character. I gather info by extorting their therapists. I also require a
    signed document, a driver's license, and a copy of their birth
    certificate.

    This is ridiculous... Why would anyone attempt (and obviously not
    succeed) to enforce gender? That defeats the point of a RP MOO, and makes
    a social MOO more hassle than its worth.

    I think that playing a character of the opposite sex would be an amazing
    RP challenge.

    Joe