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I purchased the iTuTu stand mirror for a bedroom setting I was assembling, and little did I know that when you click on it, it not only gives your avatar height, but also an estimated weight and BMI. According to the Itutu mirror, I am 5 foot 9 inches, and 120 lbs with a BMI of about 15. (“You are skinny” says the mirror. Thanks?)
This is causing me yet again to rethink my avatar shape. Although the height is correct, I am slightly concerned at the weight estimate of my avatar and the social constructs I may well be unwittingly projecting. Of course, I also understand that this may be a cultural thing, to have a mirror in Second Life that tells you all of this statistical data.
I’m just not sure I want a mirror telling me I’m skinny.
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I was 5’9″ and 120 lbs when I was 18-19 years old, and I have to say, I did NOT have your avie’s nice curves.
I don’t know what the mirror reads to come to that conclusion, but it’s wrong. Maybe it’s the thickness slider? Or maybe it’s programed to make up for all of our real life mirrors telling us we’re fat?
Hmmm… I have to agree with Eliza, the mirror seems off for BMI. At 5’7″ and 120 lbs in RL, I didn’t look like your av… I was fairly scrawny, really.
I wouldn’t worry too much about the body image your avatar projects. In a lot of virtual worlds, the shape is preset and you can’t modify it… and they’re usually cartoonishly thin or unnaturally curvy with tiny waists and giant heads. Hopefully, everyone in Second Life is old enough to realize it’s a virtual world, not real.
And you’re one of the few avs I know who actually looks like themself in RL.