Sublime

ways their apparent hypocrisy undermines conservative homophobic sentiment

“He was a man and I like that in a person.”

convergence culture,

the designers refuse to acknowledge that the epithets, stereotypes, and abuse of some groups inside virtual worlds are buttressed, underwritten, and cosigned by policies and practices outside the game. Most importantly, the white masculine subjectivity is one that erases its own existence: “Going after everyone equally erases white masculinity’s po

centrally concerned with sex and the ways it supports or disorganizes coupled and communal intimacies.

Roughgarden’s wonderful study of evolutionary diversity, Evolution’s Rainbow (2004), explains that most biologists observe “nature” through a narrow and biased lens of socionormativity and therefore misinterpret all kinds of biodiversity. And so, although transsexual fish, hermaphroditic hyenas, nonmonoga-

was functionally non-male,

runs the risk of not being taken seriously. Yet this is my goal. Being taken seriously means missing out on the chance to be frivolous, promiscuous, and irrelevant. The desire to be taken seriously is precisely what compels people to follow the tried and true paths of knowledge production around which I would like to map a few detours.

Here we see how a white masculine imagination flattens social reality. Equal Opportunity Offense is the prime directive, and durable hierarchies are figments of others’ imagination.