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Similar to Craigslist??s “Missed Connections,” Toor’s websites invite students to post amorous notes about their crushes—names striken but humorous descriptions preserved—in the hopes that the crush might see the post. If professing in person, the speaker would be deemed quite bold. Yet on the Internet, the speaker is masked, so the potentially negative ramifications of proclaiming one’s feelings effectively disappear...
...While Mr. Diablo may have overestimated the purchasing power of Oregon’s vegan chauvinists—he recently put his strip club up for sale on craigslist??other prominent vegan activists display a similar willingness to exchange the objectification of animals for the objectification of women. Typically defended by the weak retort “sex sells,” these endeavors have prompted critics to brand veganism as a sexist ideology—a damaging charge given veganism’s place within a broader progressive program. PETA has unapologetically commandeered the female body...
...Craigslist??s bizarre alchemy of anonymity and potentiality breeds hundreds of such posts. The poster would (I hope) be chagrined to admit in his actual life that he prefers women who “know when to be quiet.” What Craigslist offers is the opportunity to meet such women without any of the consequences of doing it in person. And this possibility drives him—and others like him—to fill the message boards with their specifications. Yet the discontinuity between public persona and private desires can be dangerous...
...closing. The one thing students may not be too worried about, though, is the possibility of disciplinary consequences for their traditional actions. Is everyone in on the joke though? One very public tradition pursuant, Anne-Marie Zapf-Belanger ’09, infamously (and successfully!) posted on Craigslist??s “Casual Encounters” section last year in search of a sex-in-the-stacks co-conspirator. In her post, she mentioned that she had already completed the other two traditions and was trying to fulfill the trio before finishing her freshman year. She didn?...
...fair, a search for “Harvard” and “student” over all of Craigslist??s personal ads yielded dozens of posts over the past week (and searches for other local colleges reveal similar figures). In this way, Anne-Marie is hardly alone at Harvard. Or in Boston...