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Authors: Fritz Allhoff, Michael Bruce
View,” for some of these
points. Quinn’s paper, along with my subsequent commentary on it, were both delivered at the group meeting of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association’s (APA) eastern division conference in Philadelphia, December 2008.
Details of Kinsey’s study are available at the Kinsey Institute website, at www. kinseyinstitute.org (accessed June 8, 2009).
Detailed information on Delta Lambda Phi may be obtained directly from their website, at www.sites.dlp .org/sites/national (accessed June 15, 2009).
MICHAEL BR UCE
CHAPTER 3
THE VIRTUAL BRA CLASP
Navigating Technology in College Courtship
College Sex is Tagged: Become a Fan
One clear way to reveal someone’s age is by the technology they use. It does not take a genius to tell that the guy with the beeper or with the giant Miami Vice car phone is not fresh on the scene.Today, col- lege kids are swerving in and out of traffic on their new iPhones, updating their Facebook status, Twittering “I just changed my Facebook status,” and texting the guy or girl they met the night before.
And don’t tell me that in ten years people will think our Bluetooths are not hideous, but for now we’re cool. Soon enough a new advance in technol- ogy, or a change in fashion, will have us signing up to the next social media website, uploading the “good” pictures, adding all the same friends again as they slowly follow our lead from the last place, updating our status – this place is so much cooler! – and it is business as usual.
If you are in college and are trying to meet a boyfriend or a girlfriend, find a husband or wife, a friend with benefits, a rebound, or the infamous one-night-stand, you have to be able to navigate an incredible amount of technology. It may help you or it may crush your chances; either way, you have to deal with it. The following essay is a phenomenological account of the technological hoops college students jump through every day in their quest for love and lust. A phenomenological account is concerned with attaining an understanding and proper description of the structure
of our mental and embodied experience. Phenomenology employs a distinctive method to study the structural features of experience and of things as experienced; it does not attempt to develop a naturalistic expla- nation, i.e., an explanation that is justified insofar as it rests on empirical evidence, or causal theory. 1
“That will get you slapped!”
Think back, way back, when people were less mediated by technology. I do not know if it is true, but I have heard stories that people used to meet other people, even ask them out on dates, by just walking up and talking to one another. Can you believe that? What a rush that must have been – the Wild West! But wait, how could that work? Did they quickly look at each other’s online profile from their smart phone with the Facebook application? Would they see those awesome pictures from Cancun when I was tan and all my hundreds of hot friends? Would one person walk over to the other and say “Want to text?” followed by flirty finger-work?
Of course, that could never happen today; when was the last time you saw someone walking alone who did not have their phone glued to their ear? Walk across most college campuses and you will be shocked by how many people are on their phones. I feel sorry for the poor guy who tries to approach directly a college girl on campus, or vice versa. A girl walking through the quad on her Blackberry might as well be in a bubble.
If I saw a girl sitting on a campus bench, drinking coffee and reading my favorite book, and I walked up and started talking to her, I think there is a good chance that she would find it very awkward. There is a sense in our current customs that meeting “random” people this way is highly suspect. People who do this must be creepy and desperate, and probably rapists. This kind of
points. Quinn’s paper, along with my subsequent commentary on it, were both delivered at the group meeting of the Society for Lesbian and Gay Philosophy, in conjunction with the American Philosophical Association’s (APA) eastern division conference in Philadelphia, December 2008.
Details of Kinsey’s study are available at the Kinsey Institute website, at www. kinseyinstitute.org (accessed June 8, 2009).
Detailed information on Delta Lambda Phi may be obtained directly from their website, at www.sites.dlp .org/sites/national (accessed June 15, 2009).
MICHAEL BR UCE
CHAPTER 3
THE VIRTUAL BRA CLASP
Navigating Technology in College Courtship
College Sex is Tagged: Become a Fan
One clear way to reveal someone’s age is by the technology they use. It does not take a genius to tell that the guy with the beeper or with the giant Miami Vice car phone is not fresh on the scene.Today, col- lege kids are swerving in and out of traffic on their new iPhones, updating their Facebook status, Twittering “I just changed my Facebook status,” and texting the guy or girl they met the night before.
And don’t tell me that in ten years people will think our Bluetooths are not hideous, but for now we’re cool. Soon enough a new advance in technol- ogy, or a change in fashion, will have us signing up to the next social media website, uploading the “good” pictures, adding all the same friends again as they slowly follow our lead from the last place, updating our status – this place is so much cooler! – and it is business as usual.
If you are in college and are trying to meet a boyfriend or a girlfriend, find a husband or wife, a friend with benefits, a rebound, or the infamous one-night-stand, you have to be able to navigate an incredible amount of technology. It may help you or it may crush your chances; either way, you have to deal with it. The following essay is a phenomenological account of the technological hoops college students jump through every day in their quest for love and lust. A phenomenological account is concerned with attaining an understanding and proper description of the structure
of our mental and embodied experience. Phenomenology employs a distinctive method to study the structural features of experience and of things as experienced; it does not attempt to develop a naturalistic expla- nation, i.e., an explanation that is justified insofar as it rests on empirical evidence, or causal theory. 1
“That will get you slapped!”
Think back, way back, when people were less mediated by technology. I do not know if it is true, but I have heard stories that people used to meet other people, even ask them out on dates, by just walking up and talking to one another. Can you believe that? What a rush that must have been – the Wild West! But wait, how could that work? Did they quickly look at each other’s online profile from their smart phone with the Facebook application? Would they see those awesome pictures from Cancun when I was tan and all my hundreds of hot friends? Would one person walk over to the other and say “Want to text?” followed by flirty finger-work?
Of course, that could never happen today; when was the last time you saw someone walking alone who did not have their phone glued to their ear? Walk across most college campuses and you will be shocked by how many people are on their phones. I feel sorry for the poor guy who tries to approach directly a college girl on campus, or vice versa. A girl walking through the quad on her Blackberry might as well be in a bubble.
If I saw a girl sitting on a campus bench, drinking coffee and reading my favorite book, and I walked up and started talking to her, I think there is a good chance that she would find it very awkward. There is a sense in our current customs that meeting “random” people this way is highly suspect. People who do this must be creepy and desperate, and probably rapists. This kind of
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