Certainly the documented prevalence of online gender- and race-bending would lend strong support to such an interpretation; […]

And I may add old buffties like me who have forgotten some of it and could do with the reminding!

get me a thing of apple juice at the store; I just ate a whole thing of jelly beans

Once Rome, fully conscious of the irresistibleness of her power by land, had transferred her superiority also to the other element; now the mighty state was powerless at sea and, as it seemed, on the point of also losing its dominion at least over the Asiatic continent.