I am at a bar on the strip and let me tell you...

[Gravitycollapse]

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Not only is chivalry dead. It never lived.

Fuck sexual violence.

To preface this entire thing: I spoke to a friend who is a bartender who made it explicit that the women who "prepare" for these kind of holidays "denigrate" themselves. The only kind of justification is the pay. And to justify this kind of humiliation with pay is disturbing. It's wrong.

[Oakenshield]

1. I hope you get whatever help you might need in the wake of such violence.

Be that counseling or a visit to the doctor's office. Please take care.

[Gravitycollapse]

2. There's a woman here who has been through hell and back...

And it is a shame, an absolute shame that all of this has been in the name of some ridiculous holiday.

This is ridiculous. No one should have to deal with the kind of sexual harassment dealt women tonight. It's unacceptable. Absolutely, unacceptable.

[Kali]

18. I am curious what you mean by this reply.

welcome to DU, I think.

[Oakenshield]

19. I was concerned for her welfare.

Nothing else to it really. Maybe I came off condescending, in which case I apologize.

[BainsBane]

3. I don't understand what exactly this is about

Are you talking about prostitutes or strippers? Is that what you mean by pay? What then is the holiday?

[Gravitycollapse]

4. The holiday is St. Patrick's day.

My friends serve drinks at bars.

[msongs]

5. your friends are forced to serve drinks at bars when they could choose something else? nt

[ZombieHorde]

6. I know, right? It's raining jobs in the US!

[redqueen]

9. Right?

They should just strap on their job helmets and squeeze down into a job cannon and fire off into job land, where jobs grow on little jobbies.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

11. ... lol ...

*snicker*snicker* ... really did get a giggle out of that one, thanks

fire off into job land.

bombs away.

Baby!!

[redqueen]

12. Yep, Charlie Day cracks me up too :) it's from one of my favorite shows.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

15. is that

Always Sunny In Philadelphia, by chance?

[ZombieHorde]

14. Exactly! nt

[Gravitycollapse]

7. Yes, the only "job" which bothers to pay anything is being a sex object at a bar...

Which pays well but is humiliating. And even after asking my friends if they felt the job paid well they said that ultimately it was simply "denigrating," regardless of the pay.

And the worst part is the kind of interaction after the "party" with men just screaming at women as if they're property (the police ignore it.) It boggles the mind.

How do we live in a society where women are treated so poorly?

[LanternWaste]

8. You're forced to make this post when you could choose to be supportive? nt

You're forced to make this post when you could choose to be supportive? nt

[Tuesday Afternoon]

13. something about choosing to support their right to be denigrated for the almighty dollar

goes here. America Freedom

[LanternWaste]

16. Financial coercion is the defacto American dream for far too many people.

Financial coercion is the defacto American dream for far too many people.

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. Too many people use monetary gain as the definition

For success. Americans are especially susceptible to this ruse.

[redqueen]

10. I'm curious what they meant by "prepare".

Put on ridiculously cheap, tacky, mass-manufactured, Irish-themed merchandise? Paint their faces green?