[MD] Core problemS

[MarshaV]

At 01:06 PM 9/5/2008, you wrote:
>[Marsha]
>Your photograph was easy enough to find on the Web with 
>Penn.  How  virtual are
>you?
>
>[Arlo]
>Well, you make an assumption here. How do you know the image I use 
>on that site
>is "my real picture"? What if it was taken 15 years ago? 25? What if 
>I told you
>I had once been female and underwent gender altering surgery? What 
>if it is not
>my body at all? And the bigger question... does it matter?
>
>And, I'd also ask, in what way does seeing (what you think is) the corporeal
>body "Arlo" inhabits give you any further insight into "who Arlo 
>is"? "Arlo" is
>the person you know here, the personae that exists "between us". 
>This "Arlo" is
>likely different from the Arlo-personae that exists between others.
>
>There are people who know me exclusively as "Jim", who do not even 
>know that on
>my birth certificate is penned "Arlo". Do they not know "my real name"? Is the
>person they know "less real"?
>
>

Arlo,

No.  You don't matter.  And save the gobblygook for someone who buys 
the goods you're selling.

Marsha









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