Stripper poles: New feminism (keep your law off my body)

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 09/01/07 | Alfred Lubrano

[Kid Shelleen]

College fraternities, long known as bastions of grace and decorum, are these days featuring yet one more accoutrement of scholastic refinement - the stripper pole. The most important campus development since the keg, the stripper pole shines like a luminous totem festooning the halls of the American academy. ---snip--- Post-feminists argue that the pole is empowering. If a young woman chooses to use it, they say, she is telling the world that she is in charge of her sexuality.

[Kid Shelleen]

You've come a long way baby and ended up exactly where you started..

[SIDENET]

No pictures?

[cubreporter]

And women say they are feminists and independent? They play into what men want every single day of their lives. Women are their own worst enemies aren’t they? Sad.

[billorites]

[SIDENET]

LOL.

[squarebarb]

The deceptive words used by the left almost destroy the meaning of meaning.

[Lorianne]

This is stupid. Statistically, there are perhaps a handful of young women who “argue that the pole is empowering”.

People always take the fringe and make them out to be the majority.

[kalee]

No, they’ve ended up much below where they started. They stepped off the pedestal, slid down the pole and landed into the muck.

[SIDENET]

Post-feminists argue that the pole is empowering. If a young woman chooses to use it, they say, she is telling the world that she is in charge of her sexuality.

What a joke.

Wait another 10 years, and college girls will probably be wearing burqas or hijabs and telling of how "empowered" and "liberated" it makes them feel.

[jdub]

I guess i know have to add another item to the "things I wish I had done when I was single" list:

172. Install stripper pole in the living room.

[docbnj]

Article continues: “ There was a time when feminism was about women being smart and assertive, and building inner strength.
Somewhere along the line, though, it morphed into slut culture. Girls tell themselves they’re in charge. But they’re still just strutting it for the boys.”

[American_Centurion]

Eventually Jody will get them all.

[cammie]

No, they’ve ended up much below where they started. They stepped off the pedestal, slid down the pole and landed into the muck.

With the men.

[fkabuckeyesrule]

I love that picture! LOL!

[digger48]

[SampleMan]

If a young woman chooses to use it, they say, she is telling the world that she is in charge of her sexuality.

Unless she uses a pimp. But these are college girls, I'm sure they're all going to run their own business.

[okie01]

And women say they are feminists and independent? They play into what men want every single day of their lives.

And what is it that men do? If not play into what their woman wants, every single day of their lives...?

It's the Law of Nature...

[Turret Gunner A20]

How did Will Shakespeare pout it?

A slut is a slut is a slut.

[BenLurkin]

"If a young woman chooses to use it, they say, she is telling the world that she is in charge of her sexuality."

We have been dumbed down beyond belief.

[Lorianne]

This is already happening.