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The splash screen of the *MakeHuman* software is a typical "virtual" fantasy of three fit and slender human figures, bodies that I would associate with my own 14-year old body. They are in an embrace where the arms of the left and right figure covers that of the middle one's breasts, who is facing the camera. They/she do(es)n't have any primary sex organs however. Which aligns with the fact that after the splash screen, a trigger warning appears: be cautious as you might see bodies. And they might be..... NUDE! We would not want to offend anyone with unsollicited anatomical truthfulness. A correctness that the interface doesn't care so much about effectively as you will later have the option to blow up your avatars genitals as big as your fantasy requires.
**Blumenbach's racial classification system, still here today**<br>
The interface also uses biological theorist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's outdated and very problematic racial classification system from the 18th century. It's the one with categories like like "caucasian", and also the one underpinning the later pseudoscience *eugenics*. **News flash**: they're not real. They signify nothing besides an imagined superiority of Western European/American white folks: it's a construct created to divide. As an interface design alternative, one might just observe and describe the features themselves, rather than grouping them according to a system that perpetuates racial stereotypes. Find out more about it in this nice article: [Why Do We Keep Using the Word "Caucasian?" by Jolanda Moses](https://www.sapiens.org/column/race/caucasian-terminology-origin/)
The interface also uses biological theorist Johann Friedrich Blumenbach's outdated and very problematic racial classification system from the 18th century. It's the one with categories like like "caucasian", and also the one underpinning the later *eugenics*, a branch of pseudoscience that was used to justify the Holocaust. **News flash**: they're not real. They signify nothing besides an imagined superiority of Western European/American white folks: it's a construct created to divide. As an interface design alternative, one might just observe and describe the features themselves, rather than grouping them according to a system that perpetuates racial stereotypes. Find out more about it in this nice article: [Why Do We Keep Using the Word "Caucasian?" by Jolanda Moses](https://www.sapiens.org/column/race/caucasian-terminology-origin/)
**Your weight/body fat/breast size might be deemed off the charts**<br>
Each bodily feature can be adjusted with a scale (size of arms, proportions, muscle mass, facial recognition, body fat etc). It's worth considering where these extremes stop. There's a limit to how fat or skinny a body may be apparently, even in 3D virtual world.
