if u are anon online, u dont need to worry abt women, HR ppl at work, or yr mother looking at yr neurotic & perverse posts. once you facedox you lose the comfort of anonymity and somehow become something less than you were... to become a "real person". that is symbolic castration
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I think you're missing some gradient here, R. Being faceless is just one element anons use to get to the point of writing in order to have no face.
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Care to elaborate? Shedding face to me is not the outcome of wearing an online mask but the result of a personal struggle with oneself that finally brings you to this ethical conclusion, that having a face is not important. It's redundant.
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Danah Boyd’s research is useful here. Really the question is the opposite: is it possible to be one’s singular authentic meatspace self online, and why on Earth would anyone want to if not for the desires of advertisers and censors?
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It's just desires like beliefs are not essentially commensurate with the constraints of reality.
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