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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Right, so my best friends and I occasionally went to bars and told men we were on spring break from mime school. Then we would do “mimes climbing the rope” and “mimes feeling the wall in front of them” until someone bought Sevgi a drink. Of course Sevgi Read More...
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I had a friend one time who decided to tell the men at the bar she was a forensic pathologist. I am not sure what, if anything, it accomplished. I guess it beat telling them she was a lawyer. And so do you think the guy sitting next to me on the plane Read More...
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In college, I had a friend whose favorite thing was trying on different personas in bars, spinning all kinds of wild life stories just for the fun of it. (Excellent storyteller, that one.) So one time when I went home with her for the weekend, she got Read More...
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I like the following detail of Ashley Dupre's (I mean, "Kristen"; I mean, Ashley Youmans) biography. According to the New York Post , part of the reason she left home was that she crashed her oral-surgeon stepfather's Porsche. Like you, Hanna, I thought Read More...
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Well, fine then. How does this sound: I am 24 years old. I grew up in Venezuela, although my mother was Danish. When I was 8 years old, a child welfare worker discovered I'd been abused by my stepfather and placed me in a black foster home. (Oh wait, Read More...
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Funny Hanna , I am having no trouble at all reconciling sweet middle-class baby-sitting Ashley with starving streetwise Ashley with elegant upscale hooker Ashley. They’re all clichés. At one point or another I had each of those Barbies in my collection. Read More...
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Hanna, I think it’s always a better story to go from rags to riches as a pop singer than to be just another pretty face from the privileged ’burbs, isn’t it? That hasn’t been sexy since Debbie Gibson, if it ever was—or at least it’s not nearly as compelling. Read More...
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OK, so I am a sucker, or at the very least confused. Ashley grew up in a nice middle-class suburban neighborhood? She spent her young days cheerleading and putting up signs for baby-sitting? So, can someone answer me these questions? 1. Why does a nice Read More...
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Sort of. On MySpace, all is not as it seems . Who'da thunk it? So, I retract what I said about " working class ," and I hereby downgrade Ashley Dupre to merely "messed up." Read More...
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"Deserve got nuthin' to do with it."—Snoop (and before her, Clint Eastwood in Unforgiven .) Whatever the mix of bad breaks and pathology and misguided, "I Wanna Be a Supermodel" ambition that led Ashley Dupre to the Emperors' Club, I feel sorry for anybody Read More...
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Liza and Maureen : I guess I think that asking whether Ashley is a "victim" is the wrong question. I agree, whatever her childhood circumstances, she's a moral agent and she made a bunch of choices that landed her in that hotel room with Eliot Spitzer. Read More...
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I think it’s worth reading Ashley’s MySpace page pretty carefully. I guess I have a lot less sympathy for someone whose rent troubles seem fueled as much by delusions of grandeur as by poverty, abuse, or lack of education. If she had so much trouble paying Read More...
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So no, I wasn't. Or at least what I meant was, there's this lipstick-feminist notion out there that prostitution is a victimless crime, that being a high class hooker is a sort of glamorous life, particularly in this new online world where nobody has Read More...
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Hanna and Rachael , I too was struck by the vulnerability of Ashley that emerged in today's New York Times ' profile. I noticed a "primary source" ("Hot Document" speak) for the profile was the young woman's MySpace page, which by " Thursday at noon ...appeared Read More...
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Whoa, there, Nellie! Hanna, you're at least kinda sorta kidding , right? About initially being "lured into this notion that ... it was poor Eliot Spitzer who got played by a young vixen, a conniving madam, petty payment schemes, and a culture that suffocates Read More...
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Hanna, Your post about Ashley Dupré has me wondering whether her story gives lie to some of the arguments made for legal but well-regulated prostitution. Isn't the ideal version of legalized prostitution something like the Emperors' Club? An agency that Read More...
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Over the last couple of days of reading XX Factor, I have been lured into this notion that this scandal is not about powerful men having their way, that in fact it was poor Eliot Spitzer who got played by a young vixen, a conniving madame, petty payment Read More...
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