This week class was extremely 'hands on' as we explored the video game 'World of Warcraft' (WoW). After a painful 10Gb download, I opened the game not really knowing what to expect, and with a mindset that I would need to consider 'Race', 'Gender', and 'Sexuality' as it was portrayed in this game.
My observations while playing this game, at first were overshadowed by the fact that I was trying to figure out how to play the game. Once I had that under control I found my natural inclination to start 'leveling up' as quickly as possible without remembering why I was actually playing the game.
During the second day, I attempted to examine 'race', 'gender', and 'sexuality' with more of a proactive approach. Interesting enough, I found 'gender' to be the most obvious trait though after a g-chat with my classmates realized I completely missed the race aspect of the game. However, reflecting on this I realized the primarily reason was due to my epistemology and the fact that I had accepted these assumptions for much of my life. Realizing now that part of the reason I missed this aspect of the game was that I have accepted these assumptions blindly. Though I am not saying that this was an epiphany or anything on a major scale like that, I am saying that my ability to recognize the roles of 'race', 'gender', and 'sexuality' with regards to power structures is improving and beginning to change the way I am seeing many aspects of society and my life.
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