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The XX Factor: Slate women blog about politics, etc...
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Sorry to be so late to the party on Slate V's Bonk ing , but oh my, what's next on Slate After Hours ? (Or our spinoff site, Slate Blue ?) OK, maybe aspirations of primness run in my family; my dad took that Kinsey class at Indiana University where they Read More...
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This excessive Botoxing and retouching has something to do with the collapse of the classes, or at least the shifting in what used to define the super-rich. "The 'luxury' experience has become thoroughly middle-class, even prole (two words: 'Gucci T-shirt')," Read More...
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So here's a question to the men out there: Do we think this story will get less play because of an undercurrent of pity for Thomas Athans; i.e., Men who are married to more powerful women are justified in their straying, to satisfy their sense of manhood? Read More...
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I thought this factoid from the article was striking, too, and sad. Of the 20-year-old prostitute: "She told police she had only been working as a prostitute for about a week and didn’t know how many men had visited her the day she was arrested , according Read More...
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Last week I proposed gelding politicians. This week, I propose gelding their spouses. U.S. Sen. Debbie Stabenow's husband, Thomas Athans, was just caught in a prostitution sting. Some choice quotes from the Detroit Free Press : "Athans was pulled over Read More...
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Judith, I agree that the right messenger (at the right moment) could deliver most of your speech on gender. But maybe it would be easier for a woman to achieve liftoff. Anybody else remember Nicole Hollander 's Sylvia cartoon on the wage gap? From her Read More...
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Thank you, Ellen. I remember sitting in front of the television in 1998, during the first few days of the Lewinsky scandal, listening to television commentators all but demand Clinton's resignation, and shivering, and saying to my husband, "Wait a minute! Read More...
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I watched Ben Stein’s commentary on CBS News Sunday Morning this past weekend, and I’m troubled. Have I been blinded by the salacious nature of the Spitzer story and am I not focusing on the important issues here? Have I been too seduced by the sex and Read More...
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This morning is a flashback to 1998, toward the end of Lewinsky hell, when Bob Livingston decided not to run for speaker because someone had figured out he'd had an affair. And then came all sorts of rumors about who else Larry Flynt was going to out. 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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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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Rosa, for me the age-old dilemma you pose comes down to three statistics. From Venkatesh: Street hookers in Chicago experience an average of six incidents of physical abuse a year. Higher-end prostitutes in New York experience an average of two. Not much Read More...
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Conversations like this always make me feel like Bill Bennett in a skirt, but even if you're the highest-paid hooker in history—and lucky enough not to wind up getting beaten anyway—prostitution and self-respect still seem mutually exclusive to me. Because Read More...
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Oldest profession = oldest feminist dilemma in the book, ladies: "It's my body, so why shouldn't I make money from it if I want to? Why is selling sexual services different from getting paid to do physical labor/give blood/provide donor eggs/give someone 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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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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A correspondent — my former University of Virginia law student Chris Guhin — e-mails to report this: I'm ... an avid reader of XX Factor on Slate, as well as someone who was for a while mystified by the lack of general media attention on the "things ... Read More...
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Meghan : And/but. I'm with you that what we're talking about here is darker and deeper than any sea dingle . So I retract my earlier query about Spitzer's rationality, since clearly "reason" is not what's at issue. And I agree that someone's private sexual Read More...
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