As I'm sure most of you have noticed, someone created a Facebook page titled HC Secret Admirers. This page is set-up so that students can anonymously post a message to someone they have a 'crush' on. It's a bit silly, but people seem to be enjoying it. There were a few things I noticed, though, that we bothersome. At the beginning, people were posting nice things to their crushes. The person running the blog commented on it saying the wished people would write more 'dirty' things to their crushes instead of 'sweet' things. Students were sure to respond to this with some pretty explicit details of things they wanted to do to their crushes.
I was reading through some more comments when I noticed someone responded to something a crush had posted on the wall. The person suggested his secret admirer come forward and ask him to get coffee since he was 'back on the market.' I didn't think much of it at first until I realized what 'on the market' insinuated. It's a phrase we have all probably heard or maybe even used to describe ourselves at one point or another. What does it mean, though? On the market? To be sold? As in I do not currently belong to someone right now, so anyone is free to buy me or control me or own me and until then I am just here, up for grabs. I'm sure we don't think about it in that way, but I can't help but wonder how the phrase was started and why we continue to use it.
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