Girls who like Boys who like Boys – Ethnography of ... - Yuuyami.com

I. Introduction
A. Introspective Introduction – or taking a
plunge into the ocean
Let me paint you a few pictures: The first one is of a girl sitting
trancelike in front of her computer; she scrolls through long documents and
stares enraptured at the screen for hours at a time. If we move closer, we
might glimpse familiar words over her shoulder: “Harry” and “Draco,”
“Gryffindor” and “Slytherin.” As we watch her read, and stay for a while, we
realize that “Harry” and “Draco” have a crush on each other and are making
out. Another picture: A group of girls sit in a dark movie theater, watching
Lord of the Rings. During some scenes, they giggle and elbow each other;
they are, it turns out, joking, and exchanging innuendo about Aragorn and
Legolas, Frodo and Sam, Merry and Pippin. As they leave the movie theater,
some of them may be literally bouncing with energy and laughter, the others
might be squealing, and someone might yell, “Eww! Hobbit-sex!!”
If we turn to another scene, here I am, sitting at my laptop. This is the
me a year ago, when I did not have ten Word windows open at all times.
Instead, there are five Internet Explorer windows, and five Instant Messenger
ones: While I read a story in one Explorer window (and it talks about “Clark”
and “Lex” together forever, before Clark became Superman, and Lex turned
evil), my Instant Messenger windows are flashing. One of them is Mel, who
vacillates between complaining about her homework, sending me links to
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