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[Dreamer Tatum]

203. You're just egging someone to use the "m" word, and I will oblige you.

There is more to a child's wellbeing than just the physical. It is MORAL as well. I know that "moral" is a more objectionable word than "CUNT" to a lot of people, but like it or not, some semblance of moral code is what helps people grow into responsible adults.

And how do I know that many DUers implicitly value moral codes? How about this: remember the Duke rape case, where all those rich frat boys paid for a stripper(s) to entertain them? There was so much harumphing and posturing on DU about how shitty those kids were for having strippers in the first place that I thought this was Elizabethan Underground. Go back and look at the (hundreds of) threads - rich entitled frat boys exploiting women this, no respect for women that. And how old were those boys? Just a couple of years older than the 16-year-old for whom a stripper was hired.

Hiring strippers for a 16-year-old plants the seed that it is OK to objectify women. It informs the 16-year-old's little sister that women's bodies are available to their brothers as entertainment. It informs other children that it must be OK to exist in a sexually-charged environment if parents are willing to underwrite it. It teaches children that it is perfectly appropriate to sexually charge a communal celebration.

Go ahead - call me every name in the book. I'll keep on making sure young men in my sphere of influence don't learn to disrespect women, and young women in my sphere of influence don't feel like their genitals need to be for sale to young men.