But the greater concern, as in Spiegel's early one-act "Carrie & Francine," is the messiness of female friendship and the wonder, frustration, vulnerability, and total weirdness of the female body.
Feelings of frustration, vulnerability, letting others down, and self-image were discussed.
For her, what started out as a forum where adoptive mothers could air frustrations, admit vulnerabilities and find unconditional support has become a lifeline.
The other is that he is a secular saint: a man of unflinching integrity in a world of shoddy compromise, personally kind and generous and uniquely sensitive to the sort of vulnerability, frustration and pain evoked in his "Saved".
He seems a wide-eyed innocent, a specialist in preverbal grunts and exclamations, almost infantile in his frustrations and his vulnerability to pokes and prods.
For the IDU participants, requiring disclosure about drug use may result in feelings of vulnerability or frustration if they want to participate but do not want disclosure.
"The free Web browser from the Mozilla Foundation surpassed 10 million downloads on Saturday as Web surfers continue to move away from Microsoft's market-dominating IE. The milestone highlights growing frustration with the security vulnerabilities that have dogged IE during the past few months.
This research process has furthered our understanding of parental and extended family frustration and anguish regarding the vulnerability of their daughters living in squalor, impoverished and hungry.
Across multiple media, today's science-engagement landscape features stories that turn on moments of exhiliration and deep intellectual satisfaction, to be sure, but often set amid routine frustrations, personal ambitions and vulnerabilities, petty rivalries, and penetrating self-doubt.
A humane and poignant story that calibrates with startling vulnerability and delicate understatement the isolation, frustrations and loneliness of lives unlived in a quiet corner of rural America," said the jury.
Between the gaping vulnerability of the internet-connected world, the frustration researchers often experience in their attempt for vendors to pay attention and fix life-threatening vulnerabilities and the new pathway for profit creation demonstrated in this situation, it's likely we'll see this type of thing again.
