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[blackbird__fly]

No wonder iTunes wasn't recognizing any of the albums I put on... I had had the firewall block it from accessing the internet. And I thought I was just listening to especially obscure music.

I rode my bike to Wild Oats for some groceries a little while ago. You know it's far too hot outside when even the wind isn't the slightest bit cool.
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[godfrei]

I think she's of the kin of feminists who believe feminism is about raising the level of status and respect women receive in the world... and regard stripping as countering that effort.

And I agree with that.

Women don't/won't achieve equal rights by taking off their clothes if they're expected to... just as african-americans didn't receive equal rights by breaking into cars and stealing car stereos.

[weaselface]

White people break into just as many cars. Unless you're in a black neighborhood, in which case black people are not only the theives but the wifes, grocery store clerks and preists.

Feminism is the freedom and right of being able to do anything you want without being restricted by your sex. If women weren't allowed to strip I bet there'd be a whole lot of naked feminists.

[blackbird__fly]

Exactly - if a woman wants to be able to strip, she should be able to do so freely and not feel like she is doing something bad. What I don't want is for her to have to do something she is unhappy doing and feel as if there are no other options.

[godfrei]

It was a negative stereotype.

[blackbird__fly]

No, they don't achieve equal rights by taking their clothes off if they're expected to - they do it by choosing to do so. I admire the women who work in strip clubs, because a large portion of society still sees women that are open and sexual as sluts (see the Metro and Scot's comments re: me). Wouldn't it be worse for women if we all gave in and stopped recognizing ourselves as sexual beings? Yes, it's true that by getting up on the stage and dancing topless a woman becomes a sex object, but it's not the woman that makes it that way, it's the men. The woman has the power in that situation.

As Genisis (weaselface, not the book of the Bible) said, feminism is about being able to choose for yourself, and not be restricted because of who you are. I think it's people like the_faery_queen, who think you can't be a feminist and a housewife/porn star/stripper and views those people as lower than "the rest of us", that set back the status of women, not the girls making a good living by showing off their bodies.