??? Seattle defeats referendum prohibitting lap dances

[bobbieinok]

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I Blame The Patriarchy




Let us now return to the tiresome world of the lap dance.* I know, I know. I’m sorry, but it has to be done, because last Election Day in the enlightened city of Seattle, a referendum** prohibiting, among other things, bodily contact between johns and strippers was seen swirling down the Crapper of Women’s Dignity, waving a bleak farewell with its feeble, shackled hand, while the town’s “open-minded” Tony Sopranos and their “liberal” butt-boys threw a big we’re-in-the-money penis party.

Seattle’s mayor and city council thought Referendum 1 was a good idea; their guiding principle emerged from the sound reasoning that strip clubs, which are directly related to elevated crime rates, might buzz off if skulking pornsick “gentlemen” could no longer use them as repositories for their personal moistness.***

Stupid, naïve city government.

The portion of the Referendum 1 to which the good townsfolk most strenuously objected was a restriction called the “4-Foot Rule”. This regulation would have kept strippers from coming within groping distance of their clients (although the knuckledraggers, with their longer arms, might still have had a shot), thus putting the kibosh on, as one journalist so wistfully put it, “strippers overflowing from their lingerie … men by the hand to dark booths for a dance.” But in Seattle, the city famous for duping otherwise right-thinking Americans into accepting burnt coffee as a taste treat and flannel as a fashion statement, the lap dance is apparently central to the voters’ sense of what it means to be a Seattlian (Seattlite?). According to the referendum’s vociferous opponents, the lap dance is no mere gentlemen’s entertainment. No. The lap dance is the physical expression of Jeffersonian political idealism. It is what our boys are fighting for. It is woven into the very fabric of Old Glory.

The Seattle Post-Intelligencer reports that the aforementioned vociferous opponents were in fact a contingent of Seattle strip club owners/organized crime enthusiasts — i.e. men who sell women for a living — who spent almost a million smackeroos**** on their campaign. Their tireless efforts successfully persuaded voters (not that the average enflanneled yay-hoo needs much persuasion to view strip clubs as elemental to American dudeship) that a male groin without 24-hour access to abused, degraded, naked women constitutes a travesty so egregious that it must be construed as nothing less than an infringement on the right to free speech.

I’m not joking! Free speech! Ha-ho! That’s a hot one. In Seattle you can do whatever you want as long as you do it to a woman in a strip club and you call it “speech”.

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[WCGreen]

1. One thing....

How come it is okay for men to make millions using their bodies in violent ways, football, Hockey, Boxing, but when a woman wishes to take advantage of her body, use her body for commerce, it is considered violence against women....

Which is patriarchy

[Mythsaje]

2. Seattlite

I'm not sure why the voters shot down the proposed law. I've known a few strippers (had a few as neighbors years ago) and I could bet that most of them opposed this law too. The four-foot law would interfere with their tips, I suppose.

I wonder if the author of this article has ever MET a stripper. I somehow doubt it.

The tone of this article is just plain insulting. We wore flannel long before it was a fashion statement. 70% of the year, it's just good to stay a bit warmer and less innundated with water.

[PSPS]

3. I voted against it, and I saw no advertising whatsoever one way or the other

I don't watch, listen to, or read the media where there was any political advertising, so my decision wasn't swayed one way or another by that. In fact, I first learned that there even was such a proposition was when I read the voters' pamphlet.

I voted against it because I don't want people on my payroll wasting their time being a nanny, and I don't like the idea of legislating morality.

The mayor of Seattle is an odd guy. In many cases, he demonstrates common sense. Then, with increasing frequency, he comes up with these bizarre "ideas" that come out of nowhere for no reason except in his distorted view of what he thinks Seattle "should be."

[bemildred]

5. Good for you.

These subjects tend to make people go bonkers.

[meow2u3]

4. What my mom had always said about "gentlemen's clubs"

The only thing missing from gentlemen's clubs are the gentlemen.
--STP's mom, RIP