Valdez and his team of 45 freelance writers do it all: write a client's [online dating] profile, pick out potential matches, send introductory e-mails and message back and forth until a date is confirmed. Then they turn over the correspondence and tell the lucky fellow where and when he's meeting Madame X. (And it's almost always that gender dynamic; 80 percent of the firm's clients are men.)I feel like keeping this paragraph on an index card in my wallet, ready to be pulled out at any moment, with the line: "Do you really believe that gay people are not discounted or devalued in our nation's 'liberal' media?"
Tuesday, June 1, 2010
heteronormativity or heterosexism?
This stuff makes me bang my head on the wall:
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