A Toxic Cultural Swamp

Bernadette Barton has written a couple of academic studies about women strippers, and has found our society to be far more sexist than she originally thought.

Young women today flounder in a toxic cultural swamp, measuring their self-worth against the representation of the jiggling booty on a pole. My undergraduate female students learn that to be hot, to be a star, to be seen on YouTube, to get attention from guys is the pinnacle of their power and achievement. I labor to squeeze inside their 20-year old heads -- past the Pussycat Dolls, Tila Tequila and Rock of Love -- to introduce the radical idea that their time might be better spent discovering a cure for cancer, entering politics, fighting poverty or researching renewable energy sources than obsessing endlessly about their bodies.

Ultimately, Barton found that interest in strippers seems to begin and end on the pole. Her current book has sold only 2300 copies.

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