Are you a Latino/Hispanic teen, immigrant teens, "burnout," "alternative kid," "art fag," punk, emo, goth, gangsta, queer kid, or other kid who didn't play into the dominant high school popularity paradigm? According to Danah Boyd The people on MySpace are the teens who plan to go into the military immediately after schools, teens who are really into music or in a band are also on MySpace, MySpace has most of the kids who are socially ostracized at school because they are geeks, freaks, or queers. These are her words on a blog where she wrote an essay viewing American Class Divisions on the Internet by breaking down the difference between the people on MySpace and Facebook among other sites. The language she uses is the issue here.
She may have a point that there are definite class divisions among the different socializing sites that we all use across the Internet, but it definitely takes away from her point when she uses words like GEEKS - FREAKS - QUEERS - BURNOUTS - ART FAGS - PUNKS - GANGSTAS etc. View her picture and she seems to fit right into the MySpace crowd as she describes it if we go by the immediate appearance stereotypes which she is so willing to use on others. I wonder if this is the type of PhD we want coming out of Berkeley or working with Harvard on any project? Or is it the case that they are already all there?

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Bill Richardson (Governor of New Mexico) Cofused About Homosexuality?

Video of Bill Richardson in a debate with other candidates sponsored by the HRC. Tell us what you think.



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