Letters to the Editor
spankathon
Published Letters: 68 Editor's Choice: 1
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Wow
[Read the article: Breaking the mirrored ceiling]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Don't see how anyone who has ever been to a strip club can defend doing business in them.
1. It's extremely unprofessional. What do gyrating naked people have to do with ANY business BUT the sex industry?
2. Women posing so men can drool over them... precisely what gets called 'cockteasing' + 'sexual harassment' at work. It's illogical to pay your workers to do something outside the office that they can get sued for inside the office.
3. The music is BAD, and often loud enough to cause hearing damage...even if a company escapes the sexual harassment lawsuit, they could be slapped with worker's comp for hearing loss.
4. Sexual stimulus gives people a rush similar to drugs or alcohol. Should workers all meet at the local milkbar to get high and write that off, too?
5. A lot of people object to strip clubs (men AND women). A worker who would risk such ill will to indulge their penchant for strip clubs is not putting the company's interests first.
Doing business at a strip club taints everyone with a patina of unprofessionalism.
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Civil Service
[Read the article: Draft cards yes, bras no]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Most European countries require that all men serve a period of time -- usually three years -- in the army, or, if they are conscientious objectors, in the civil service (EMT's, civil construction, etc.). Women may volunteer for civil service but are not required to do so.
Wouldn't it be great if American kids, at 18, ALL had to work for three years in community gardens or on community roads, in hospitals, nursing homes, or wherever they were most needed?
It would give young poor/non-conforming people a trade and give young upper class people a much needed dose of reality.
Of course, if such a thing were to occur right now, they'd all be assigned to guarding those evil marijuana-smoking brown people moldering in the prison industrial complex or fighting for oil over in the middle-east branch of the military industrial complex.
The problem isn't a draft, per se. The problem is what those drafted people are made to do.
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Strip Clubs Are Degrading to Sex the Way McDonalds is Degrading to Food
[Read the article: Breaking the mirrored ceiling]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]An extremely long, erotic, and kinky bang is what I'm personally into. A REAL one. Not a fake one where my partner pretends to be into me as long as I stuff dollar bills in his g-string. With a partner I click with, not with someone who can barely hide their contempt for me.
Calling someone who dislikes strip clubs prudish or anti-sex is as nonsensical as calling someone who refuses to eat at McDonalds anti-food.
Doing white collar business at a strip club... A STRIP CLUB! Is sophomoric at best and sleazy at worst. I've been party to some of these outings and let me tell you: in every group of business men that acts like the female accompanying them is their equal, there's always at least one guy who uses the situation to make jokes, comparisons and inappropriate comments. Just the way it is. Once you're there with the 'boys' in the strip club, what are you going to say? My response was always to give it right back to them, and it worked for me, but I have a sharp tongue, a quick wit, and a carry permit. Not every woman should be forced to hold her own among drunk horny guys and naked women to have an equal chance at the law/bank/architecture/ad firm.
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Bohenianism?
[Read the article: Where have all the bohemians gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Oh come ON! As a world traveled peep... I gotsta say, true bohemianism in the U.S. of fucken' A is ONLY possible in NYC or LA. Two of yo' freaky friends in Iowa City don't count. Sorry, been there, done that. unless you are George Lucas circa 1977 ya gotta be were the creative energy is ...and that's on the east coast or the west coast. I wish it weren't so 'cause I'm a cheap ass motha fucka and I'd really rather live in Alaska for 400 per month utilities included but it just AINT HAPPENIN.' Most creatives can't deal with the judgement and the loneliness of living in anywhere in America that ain't NYC or LA. For REALISIES...
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ps bohemiasnism
[Read the article: Where have all the bohemians gone?]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Yeah and P.S. not even NYC and LA can compare to Vienna, Paris, Sydney, Milan, etc. for free thinking acceptance of creative people and their products. I am HAPPY to be an American but in no way PROUD to be one of the puritanical, judgmental, commercial-appeal-worshipping sheep that pass for Double Plus Good citizens of the USA.
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Extremely Successful Artist
[Read the article: Quote of the day]
[Read more letters about this article: Here]Four things required for performance art:
The context of Time
The context of Space
The performer's body
and a relationship between performer and audience.
Most performance artists fail because they are only able to wrangle the first three elements into their concept.
The US media, and all of us on this board, have just handed her number four.
We're discussing her actions and thinking about what they mean in the context of 1, 2, and 3.
Thus, she is one of the most wildly successful performance artists of the 21st century.
Whether you like it or you hate it, you know she is and what her message is. To an artist, that's Nirvana.
Do any of you KNOW any artists? She'll be lauded for DECADES for this one...