Word: craigslisters
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Craigslist takes the hazards of standard Internet anonymity to a new level. Best known to some as a site for “casual encounters”—a section of the Web site that receives over 500 posts on an average day—Craigslist consists of people hoping not only to post anonymously but to act anonymously. In the “personals” section of the site, a word-search for “discreet” returns over 1,500 entries. “Discrete” returns 404. While it would...
...Craigslist stigma” is why postings like the one from a “Harvard senior seeking female companion” have attracted more mirth than uproar. The senior’s insistence on a “white, 5’6” - 5’9”, young, blonde, attractive, and intelligent” date, and his final stipulations: “No Black, Asian, overweight, or unattractive women please,” if expressed in conversation or with his name attached, would have marked him for life. Yet the fact that life has driven...
...ends the post, somewhat surprisingly.) But for others, like the scrawny, white, and heavily tattooed “Mr. Cool Ice,” there is a simpler reason. They don’t want to appear pathetic. And at least among those who know what Craigslist is, admitting posting or responding to an ad on Craigslist is tantamount to branding yourself as a failure at life...
...posters acknowledge this, ironically beginning with some variant of “I can’t believe I’m posting on here.” For beyond any stigma on the activity a poster is seeking to engage in, there is a stigma surrounding Craigslist. The only people there, common wisdom insists, are weirdoes, losers, those whose life plans have not panned out. Otherwise they would be out there in the “scene” that dozens of them claim to be tired of, meeting people on their own and charming them with their...
...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...