dookie lax scumbags wrote:
jeffrey d. boomhauer wrote:Ironic that Duke is picked on - the site of the embarrassingly botched Duke Lacrosse team fiasco a few years back, where our society wrongly convicted some Duke athletes because of an all consuming fear of not being PC or 'tolerant' enough..
True that the allegations of rape were false, but people forget why the 2 young females were on the Duke campus with the lacrosse players in the first place -- they were strippers hired by the lacrosse team to come perform sexually gratifying performances. Seems you chose the wrong example to rebut Kate's claim.
Duke and other universities have ENCOURAGED the hiring of strippers, so can hardly reverse course and now condemn it. Duke and other universities have hosted STRIPPER shows, excuse me "Sexual Art Shows, and had mandatory attendance for students in certain classes. The "show" is meant to teach students about the stripper's occupation and to gain an appreciation for their "work". The show includes multiple striptease acts including a domintrix.
From an article about the show: "The show was sponsored by the following official university departments, centers and student organizations: the Duke Women’s Center, the Duke Student Health Center, the Healthy Devils, the Program for the Study of Sexualities, the Campus Council, the Women’s Studies Department, the University and Cultural Fund, Students for Choice, Students for Choice and the Sexual Assault Support Services. The Art Show received a total of $3,500 and high-level official sanctioning from the university, according to Kenneth Larrey, president of the Duke Students for an Ethical Duke,
The performers did not just take their clothes off – and the actual nudity part of the show was rather tame. But mere nudity could hardly compare with a show that began with the Art Show’s founder and announcer, Annie Oakley, imploring the audience to stand up and shout “I take it up the butt!” Some other highlights, or lowlights if you prefer, included:
A transvestite, naked except for some strategically placed tape, with the words “F___ Bush” painted on his chest, kneeled on all fours and lit a sparkler protruding out of his rectum with “America the Beautiful” playing.
A bare-breasted stripper sang a lewd song about Saint Bridget of Ireland, with lyrics mocking the act of ascension as she climbed to the top of a stripper’s pole.
A stripper, in the guise of a U.S. flag-draped Lady Justice, emptied coins out of her scales, pulled dollar bills out of her clothes as she removed them, and yanked a string of dollar bills out of her posterior as the sound system played Dolly Parton’s version of “God Bless the U.S.A.” She ended her act by saluting and holding up her middle finger to the crowd. The announcer referred to it as her “Infamous Patriot Act.” Her most private area was kept covered by a small American flag.
A porn actress read a series of prose-poems. In one, entitled “Spit,” she described how another actress spit into her eye and then licked it out. Another, called “Staph,” was about an infection on her genitals.
A dominatrix donned a large, “strap-on” male sex organ, and pretended to masturbate while the crowd was urged to shout “faster, faster,” in Chinese."
Can't have it both ways. Can't promote strippers on campus and then be surprised when groups actually hire them.