This is the case of Carolinetwenty, a 24-year-old pharmacy student who met Jamie, a 27-year-old computer entrepreneur, on the internet. Both free and looking for a partner, they begin to send messages. The possibility of a physical meeting seems remote because Caroline is on vacation away from Paris when she begins corresponding with Jamie. The exchanges continue, more discontinuous than before, but they are maintained. Humor and irony dominate in online conversation. There is little information about what the two young people do and what they are like socially, but Caroline paints a fairly positive picture of Jamie based on her playful personality. Common points emerge that are essentially personal qualities, such as a sense of humor, interactive and personal skills, and are not characteristics of the social category although they derive in part from it.

But above all, this time of exchange India Email List pressure, without the certainty of seeing each other, expresses the pleasure of being together and opposes the urgency of the ephemeral physical encounter. Jamie invites Caroline to her house. She accepts. Even in this case, they will distance themselves from any sexual dimension: "I still haven't gone out with him, I saw him twice without going out, and I went to his house, but we just talked and talked nonsense until nine in the morning, not really." I watched time go by." While Caroline has long practiced very free sexuality with casual partners, she develops a relationship with this man in which the sexual dimension is explicitly erased.




In 1969, the American feminist activist Carol Hanisch wrote an essay whose title became a catchphrase of the 1970s: "The personal is political." She originally conceived it as an inside comment for the feminist section of the Southern Conference Educational Fund, where she worked building a feminist movement in the American South. She had no intention for her to transcend that context. But a year later it was included in Notes from the Second Year: Women's Liberation, a book about the feminist movements of the late 1960s, and its title became enormously popular. It soon became one of the banners of feminism and later identity politics.