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Welcome to the Identity Destabilizer!

Potential questions for building your on-line profile and Getting to Know All About You…

Are you a nerd or a geek?

Are they not the same thing?

Who cares, they’re both dweebs?

Do you know your Meyers-Briggs?

Do you think it’s hooey or as good as can be expected?

How invested are you in your MB?

Are you proud of it?

It’s nothing more than more binaries?

You must change one letter in it -- which one and why?

You must post your fake one. 

Do you change to match it?

Post your fake MB, and roll with it, baby.

What color is a flesh colored Crayola™?

Is the answer to life the universe and everything 42?

Spock or Kirk? Kirk or Picard? Nimoy or Quinto?

Are jazz musicians just making it all up to be annoying?

Is tap dance a choreographed emperor’s new clothes?

How big are your tattoos?  How few do you have?

Is this sentence making you’re opinion of the riter go down?

Why are you so against tapioca?

Freud or Jung?

Take and post your Political Compass.  You are now blocked from people in the same

quadrant. 

Is the I Ching a better method of divination than your horoscope?

Disco was murdered by punk. Was it a justifiable homicide? 

Do you have a library card?  Do you know where it is? When did you last use it?  This question void if you are in grad school.

Should handsome soldiers have USDA tattooed on them?  Is that offensive to you?  Why?

Butler and Foucault are two damn fine crushworthy theorists.  Discuss. Perform your answer as an interpretive dance in a panopticon. 

Post a word cloud of your fb posts (twitter, what evs).

Take a who do I write like test.   Only ever speak to people who match.

Disney – evil or just American? Does this choice bother you?

Marshmallows are the work of the devil.  Y / N or only when in Jello™?

Milk in the cup first or tea in first? Americans need not answer. 

Creamer – than what?

Can you do armpit farts?

How old is your inner self?

Would you be a child again?

Vespa or Lambretta?

A monarchy is a deeply subversive thing. T/F

What is the best dinosaur? Define best.

Are you an Amazon,
Necromancer, Barbarian, Sorceress, or Paladin?

Everyone should experience the ocean. What privilege is this question revealing?  Is this question

revealing in itself?  

Ah...forget it... Yentas will pair you all. What do you know?Young people can't decide these things
themselves.

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  2. Meta-Reflection by Sarah I noticed that I came up with a fairly non-visual profile idea -- no options about how you look or dress, but also not about gender. I used to (not anymore) think of cyberspace as a disembodied space. We’d be beings of pure though rather than virtual representations of ourselves. Why do we want an avatar at all? What do we think when we see people with just a gray box? Do we think they are disengaged? non-tech savvy? Or do we think they are opting out of a visual privileging of identity? Perhaps I’d rather have an aural avatar. I’m a burst of signal noise, or a bar or two of La Traviata. Would that just be the same as personalized ringtone? Would its iterations drive us nuts? Why can’t I have a personal soundtrack like Family Guy? Why are avatars silent? Are they? What does race mean when it’s virtual? What does it mean to adopt another race? Is it drag / yellowface? Do we see adopting another persona as the same creative / authorial motive extended to FICTION when we create characters? (Of course we can argue about writing across race / gender / sexuality / physical ability as well.) Do we hold a virtual self to higher standards of mimesis / verisimilitude/ authenticity than a character? Why do we feel defrauded? Is there sincerity expected?
  3. In creating this list, I wanted to ask gender and sexuality neutral questions. I also wanted to push, just a little, at a USA-centric point of view. I wanted to assume / privilege a pop culture nerd point of view -- having tattoos is expected, knowing Star Trek enough to have an opinion on main characters is usual, as is having a Diablo 2 character class choice. By the same token, I think it privileges a certain age range (tail end of boomer / early Gen X) and level of education.
    Sarah

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