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nowaypablo  ·  3708 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Social & Constant Context Collapse

Well it seems like you've fully dissected what it means to be a high schooler, socially.

    Assume we have a straight student, a student who has come "out", and a homophobic student. The straight student, friends with both of them, doesn't mind the corruption of the "outness" or the homophobia, when on an individual basis.

    Cool, but boring. Would someone consider the person to be two faced? To be supportive of both a coming out process, and homophobia, at the same time?

    Or is it simply, as Goffman calls it, Face-work. Maintaining friendships where possible.

I have to make friends with the potheads, the nerds, the rich bitches, the shut-in studying kids, the theater kids, the jocks, the weird kids, the Asians, the Israelis, the art kids, the punk kids and whoever-the-fuck else tumbles around in a vague wolf-pack of fear and insecurity. Oh and my mom. Otherwise, I'm an asshole, and nobody talks to me at all.