I've been wanting to post some of my "academia" work, but since I'm still looking to actually publish them, I decided to write a "lite" version of the paper. I don't think anyone here wants to read what has now become a 15 page I-thought-it-was-final-but-apparently-not-yet draft.
Well it seems like you've fully dissected what it means to be a high schooler, socially. 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.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.