In Whyville race is not a big issue, in that no one is ostricized or discriminated against because the color of their avatar. When strolling through whyville and chatting with other whyville users your ability to seem like an orginal is what matters. Whyville is an instering virtual world and I am surprised by the things that these little pre teens say.

After a few months of playing on a virtual world I can safely say, I am glad I did not grow up playing these games! They would walk away or ignore me. I ran into this in every chat room. The reason I changed my avatar.

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Even though I use social networking websites and chat with friends online, I guess I was never able to shake off that part of my gendered socialization. When I began using Meez, I had to deal with a lot of conflicting feelings about the experience. My experience tells me it is much more complicated than we would like. Want to wear bright green hair and an X over your mouth? May 11, 2011.