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I want to know how the accused men's tuition is paid. I'm about 99% sure it's by their parents, probably the daddy works and the mommy staid at home. Are the daddies oil executives? Halliburton VPs? Tobacco lobbyists? what's more reprehensible, stripping or being a halliburton VP? I think i know the answer.
Speaking of which, why don't we know any of this? We know everything about "the stripper" and even her friend, but what about the biographies of the accused? where are they from? what are their families like? do they have siblings? do they have girlfriends?
And if people are going to criticize "the stripper" for being an exotic dancer to earn more money than she would at a a "reasonable" jobs, like the drive-thru window at BK, maybe we should ask about how "reasonable" it is to go to Duke at all when one can get a "comparable" education at a state school? You don't NEED a Duke education to have a nice life any more than you NEED to earn the alleged $800/a day (which is of course not how much she earns) to support yourself, your 2 children and your college expenses.
Bah! "Stripping" is more morally reprehensible than profiting from tobacco in our society because strippers violate willingly all our puritanical notions about the sacricity of the female body. No one comes down on male "strippers" the way people do on female "strippers." In fact, i can't think of a single legal predominantly male job that gets as much constant criticism from society as does female exotic dancing.
Lame, people. Really lame. :(
