To the Women of the World

The fact that a minority group of less than half of the worlds population is actively and systematically oppressing and depriving the majority group of their full and equal rights is a mass-discrimination that never ceases to amaze me.

The fact also that men get away with this again and again and yet again is totally bewildering to me and so is the fact that this no longer seems to be an issue in society of today or even among many women. After all it is our mothers, daughters and sisters that are being constantly deprived, abused, raped, mutilated, murdered, bought and sold like cattle and systematically underpaid, exploited and humiliated.

We need a change and the change will certainly not come from the men. So women of the World get your act together and unite! Only you can do it and we need you to do it for a better future for all human beings with full and equal rights for all.


Hell yes, you can do it!

Oh yeah and have a Happy International Womens Day...

Sunday at Elfay´s

Well, my dear Elfay has now decided to move her show "Elfay Pinkdot´s Coffee and Pajamas Jazz Show" to Sundays, 10 AM - 12 AM, at Circe´s Sunset Jazz Club (which is the oldest jazz club in SecondLife, it´s been around since 2004).

Yesterday I was there for Elfay´s Mardi Gras Special and so where many of "the usuals suspects", the big group of steady patrons. We are the ones that follow Elfay through hell and high water, come what may etc. etc.

All of us come to the show for the great music (mostly jazz), Elfay´s bantering and the usually great and inspired chat running in local throughout the show.

One of the many interesting things to look forward to is to see what outfits the group turns up in.

I hadn't changed since the evening before, except I wore my new well-earned bead necklaces. At Mardi Gras women earn their beads by showing their boobs, but as a man I have no boobs to show so I´ll leave you all guessing how I earned them this time...

My dear friend Diana during the show switched into one of the scariest voodoo witches I have seen since looking at a InWorldz-blog. LilTank has sworn to make a new pajama for every one of Elfay´s shows this year, and this time he looked really awesome.

Joetonight left way too early, before I had gotten my camera out.

Diana

LilTank

The group shot taken at the end of yesterdays show

Clear Your Calendars

The dates for the Second Pride Festival have been set. Second Pride will be from Sunday May 22nd until Sunday May 29th, 2011.

Clear your calendars, boys,girls, men and women and all those of us somewhere in between it´s time for more of "Where are all these homosexicals coming from?" and "The lesbians are here! Hey!"

Further information will be forthcoming as soon as it reaches this blogger, so remember too check in here often!

My World Is Getting Crowded

I remember when Ars and I moved in on this sim in January 2008. There used to be just a few sims close to us, now there are loads and loads. My sim is the one dead centre.

Is this the result of the current crisis in "InWorldz", are all the refugees coming to my neck of the woods?

Well they are very welcome to a better place - most of them! One of these days I´ll go around visit them all to wish them welcome.

Prrrrr-ai-ai-ai-ai-ai

Atchoooo!

Bock as feather duster.

Sorry folks, I had so many feathers on last night that I am still sneezing. In fact there were so many feathers at the Pride Samba fund-raiser at the Sidhe-sim that I am amazed there was still sand left on the beaches when the party ended.

All my pictures of Millimina looked f-ing horrible. She would kill me if I posted them, so I have deleted them all instead. Don´t know what it was, perhaps it was that strange smile on her face... really scary! Well, I think we must admit, she is truly beautiful but not very photogenic - we cannot all be that...

Here are some pictures from the great party! The music was awesome - you can never go wrong with samba - and the performers looked absolutely stunning, as did some of the patrons.

MC and Pride Performer Hotboy taking a brake

Hotboy on stage

 

All pictures don´t turn out great... it´s not easy with moving targets...

 

Warming Up

On Appearances

Photo coutesy Blanche Argus

When I was out looking at a new male skin at Laqroki last week, I got an unexpected IM from another shopper.

"You are too tall." was the first thing he told me, this 90 days old guy, followed quickly by "Your shoulders are too broad and your head is too small. And your torso is too long also. Believe me I know what I am talking about, I am an artist and I often sketch the human body! Your proportions are all wrong."

This wasn't the first time that has happened to me, and usually I get this kind of well-meaning but unsolicited advice in IMs.

Photo by Kent Hutchinson

"A blond guy like you cannot have dark eyebrows like that!" I have been told a couple of times. None of these people can have met me, two of my nieces and a couple of other Swedes I know who have exactly that, blond hair and dark eyebrows.

"You should get other eyes" someone else told me "because the ones you have now look dead. Go to this place they have great eyes!" I was horrified to learn that my eyes looked dead, so I went to the store I was recommended and bought five sets of new pale green eyes. I hated them all and soon switched back to the ones I have had for a long time now.

When I first came to SecondLife and realized that I could look exactly the way I wanted to look in my dreams, as most Swedes, I went for a California suntan, dark brown hair and beautiful dark blue eyes. I changed appearances once every six to eight weeks, ever "improving" on myself - well, my avatar, but you all know what I mean.

Photo by Kent Hutchinson

After I met Ars I started slowly meandering towards my real life colors, first with the eyes, then the hair and finally the skin. Ars was always supportive and loved all my changes, well he loved me however I made myself look, so I am not sure if his views count.

Of course I do not look this stunning in real life, but the colors are mine. I am not 244 cm though or as musclebound , instead I am shorter than the average Swedish male with my measly 175 cm. The legs are mine though, I can proudly tell you, I love my legs in real life and SecondLife! Oh and not to disappoint some of my fans, my d**k is of course as huge in real life as it is in SecondLife...

I have looked much the same in SecondLife for the last two and a half years, except for wearing different hair-dos, and I really do feel very comfortable in my present look.

Photo by Kent Hutchinson

That is after all the most important thing, in my mind, to feel comfortable in your own avatar whatever anyone else tells you. Hell, I will even go so far as to say it is the most important thing in real life also!

In SecondLife you can be whatever suits you best be it a frog, a wolf, a demon, a vampire, a fairy, an archangel, a neko, a troll, a snow leopard or even an over-sized man with blond hair and dark eyebrows.

So what I told the well-meaning artist before teleporting away was "Thanks for telling me your views, but I am quite comfortable with my shape and everything else about my appearances. Have a great day!"