Sunday’s column: More strippers coming to 202 Market!
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Remember 202 Market, the downtown restaurant where River Laker did an unauthorized and banal strip act in 2011? They announced some exciting news last week: Next month, they will play host to the Chippendale dancers.
Surely you have heard of the Chippendales. Those chisel-chested exhibitionists have been famous for decades. They’re the Gypsy Rose Lees of male stripping. They take off more than the go-go dancers at the infamous Papa Joe’s did.
They have danced in Virginia before — Northern Virginia, aka “the other Virginia.” But have they danced before in Bible Belt Virginia? That is unclear. But they will on Sept. 18. 202 Market must be trying to class up their joint.
Tickets ($15 in advance; $20 at the door) for the two-hour show went on sale Wednesday, and that morning there was a line of excited women at the door.
This raises several concerns.
First, it is an outrage. The 6-man revue thrives on the sexual objectification of the male physique.
Every feminist and church lady out there ought to be madder than Hades about this. They’ve never been shy about denouncing female dancers on stage, for the exact same reason.
Besides that, this is utterly demeaning to men, especially portly and hirsute middle-agers like me.
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August 5, 2012 - 6:00 AM
OMGOSH!!!!!!! Now you know what we women have endured for years!!!! After having three children I feel like I look pretty damn good! If you are that insecure maybe you ought to look into yourself! That is like the pot calling the tea kettle black!!!
Mary:
“That is like the pot calling the tea kettle black!!!”
Hahaha. I’m glad someone finally said it. Apparently Mary doesn’t know how far people on the blog swerve out of their way to avoid the word “black” in that old saying. If she did and just doesn’t care, +1.
Mary, please go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tongue-in-cheek then come back, take a deep breath and read the column again.
Good grief! Why is everyone’s first reaction these days to overreact? I like my melodrama rare.
If you buy the new Samsung sarcasm detector at Best Buy this week, they give you a free satire detector add-on module. Get ‘em while supplies last!
(Batteries not included)
Dobbs,
Something tells me certain atheists didn’t get the joke. For an explanation, tune into Monday’s bonus column.
I remember that they had a show in Roanoke in the late 1980s.