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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
I wrote an article on pole-dancing a while back which allowed me to try it out and it was super fun - like being a kid on a jungle gym again. There was a real sense of freedom and play, right until we got to the part where you're supposed to lick the pole provocatively. Ew.
But regardless of whether you're swinging around the thing like a kid or dry-humping it like a stripper, pole dancing has a very clearly defined sexual connotation in our culture.
It's completely inappropriate and messed up to teach little girls pole-dancing. What's next? Flash-your-coochie-for-the-paparazzi lessons?
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
