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Bucknell University Hosts Career Day
Recently, feminists at Bucknell University sponsored an event that looked more like a Duke Lacrosse party than a celebration of feminist diversity. On March 8, Bucknell's so-called Feminist Majority - along with groups like the Womens and Gender Studies Department, the Center for the Study of Race, Gender, and Ethnicity, and the Office of Lesbian Gay Bisexual and Transgender Awareness - paid $1,920 for a strip show at Bucknell.Billed as a "celebration of whore culture" the show was euphemistically titled the "Sex Workers Art Show." It featured a group of hookers, phone sex operators, smut writers, porn stars, and one woman who appeared via her 24-hour porn website. One of the acts included a woman stripping on a trapeze. Another featured a woman coming out wearing nothing but duct tape on her nipples and panties while running through the audience to Mission Impossible music and looking for clothes. While another woman was doing a strip tease, a large man was rapping about "ho ass ni**ers" - like Kirby Puckett and Harriet Tubman and, just for added shock value, lubing himself. What made the event even worse in the eyes of some campus conservatives was last years response to the Conservatives Clubs hosting of Dr. Christina Hoff Sommers. Her trip to campus to talk about "equity feminism" was poorly received by some of Bucknells feminist leaders. When the Womens and Gender Studies Department (who funded the sex workers) was asked if they would like to cosponsor the Sommers lecture, first they said they lacked funding... Posted by: Anonymoose 2006-05-15 |
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