Fascinerende studie

Het gaat dan even niet over die van mij (hoewel ik erbij blijf dat grammatica wel degelijk interessant is), maar om die van de Amerikaan (denk ik) Nicholas Yee, die - ondermeer, want hij lijkt druk bezig te zijn - een studie uitvoert over MMORPG's (u weet wel, Mass Multiplayer Online RolePlaying Games, savvy), te vinden op The Daedalus Gateway.

Een kort uittreksel:
Players who have tried gender-bending oftentimes talk about how the experience has changed their understanding of gender roles. Men who have tried gender-bending describe the tension between being treated better and being treated as inferior. Many of them feel that female avatars are viewed as weaker and less capable than male avatars. Women who have tried gender-bending often realize how differently men are socialized - that they should never ask for help or show weakness. As one player describes,

I used to think men had it easy! Now I know they have issues too; they are socialized to be more independent and not ask for help. That has to be tough.
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Wordt, na enig onderzoek van het onderzoek, waarschijnlijk nog vervolgd...

[Edit]
Het is trouwens een vergelijkende sociologische studie tussen maatschappijen (de echte en de virtuele), and I've always been a sucker for sociology...