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Being called a fag hag—even when it is primarily by my gay friends??seems to imply that when searching for the next victim of my friendship, I sniff out gays. Yet I’m not an insect drawn to the homosexual flame. Women with gay friends often get lumped together as some strange breed, but the phenomenon is actually quite simple. Just like meeting politicos though a roommate in the College Democrats, having one friend in the Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) will get you in with...
...know the person.”This longing for closer relationships did not end when her textbooks closed. In fact, she cites the lack of interaction with her peers as the biggest disadvantage of homeschooling. She makes a clear distinction between her “normal friends?? and her “tennis friends.” While Ko says she lacked a steady social life, she did date a few people while on the co-ed tour. Her most notable beau is famed Thai tennis player Paradorn Srichaphan, who was once the top Asian player...
Brring! will even allow users to customize ads to their friends?? tastes in return for more money. Immediately, we are confronted by a range of other ethical concerns regarding personal information—does any acquaintance of mine have the right to release my information to any advertising company that asks? Gmail, notoriously, already uses a client’s e-mail content and searches to provide specifically correlated advertisements in the margins—but at least such information is wholly under the user’s control...
...fighting over rations.Eggers saves us, though, by recognizing that in our violence-saturated daily lives, what really brings the suffering home in this story and tugs at the heartstrings is not the gruesome descriptions of a brutal nightmare, but the shocking simplicity of Deng’s and his friends?? dreams, gorgeous fantasies of having children who will “speak English as Americans do,” the choice of different colors for shirts and shorts, bowls of oranges, or a bed of their own. Inevitably, the decision to cast Deng’s story...
...follow your friends?? activities on the “news feed,” you can post on their “wall,” and you can do the equivalent of a “poke.” But this isn’t the Facebook—it’s Xiaonei.com, one of China’s most popular online social-networking sites...