Daily Archives: January 6, 2004

Stripper Chic

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I guess it is possible to have some trends pass you by if you are not watching closely.
And I have apparently missed out on stripper chic:

Of course, for many girls who buy it, stripper-inspired fare isn’t actually about disrobing in public or even having sex but about cultivating what writer and sexpert Susie Bright calls “the essence of titillation,” a coy yet brazen, look-but-don’t-touch sexual persona.

I guess mostly because I haven’t done any of these things:

Teenagers of the new millennium have grown up watching college students give lap dances on MTV’s The Real World; they’ve listened to Christina Aguilera’s album Stripped; they’ve taken cardio strip class at the gym, perused the mall for thongs and flavored body glitter, played video games that feature strippers on their Xboxes and GameCubes, and watched endless music videos for which strip clubs and the denizens thereof provide the mise en sc�ne.

Alison Pollet and Page Hurwitz detail many aspects of the marketing of stripper chic goodies to teens and preteens.
What message is your junior high daughter sending with her latest outfit?

Drug Money

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In Calgary, drug money is at the heart of gang violence:

Greed and infighting between members of a large Asian street gang over drug money splintered the group, leading to a spate of Calgary shootings, stabbings and at least two murders in the past 13 months.

I wonder if these street gangs and their counterparts in the US have lobbyists working to stiffen existing drug laws?
Via The Media Awareness Project.

McCrackin Reassigned

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In November I called for the firing of Goose Creek principal George McCrackin. You may remember him as the man responsible for this.
Now, via Drug WarRant, I learn that he his no longer at Goose Creek:

Floyd has not decided to what position McCrackin will be reassigned, but he said McCrackin would probably spend time in the coming weeks preparing for two lawsuits filed by students stemming from the incident.

While this is a step in the right direction I still believe that this is a person that has no business being anywhere near or involved in education.