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[phamos]

Joe Francis got sentenced to 35 days in jail today. (I love that Fox News seems to be the only major outlet who thought this AP story was worth picking up.) He apparently cried all through the sentencing. Good. It's nice to see that slimy fucks don't always just get away with everything. The charge was contempt of court -- and I would agree, he's pretty damn contemptuous. And contemptible.

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I actually might just buy the Ariel Levy book. You can get it on Amazon for $10.50, and that's about what it would cost for you to ship it to me and me to ship it back. :) Looking at the reviews of the book on Amazon, I'm realizing that I actually read the New York Magazine article that was her jumping-off point for the book. It was about this phenomenon in New York called CAKE parties, which is a "sex-positive" way for twenty-something women to dance naked with men ogling them. I'm still not clear on how that's "empowering" while stripping is "degrading" (or, really, how it's different from any other club in the city). Maybe reading the book will refresh my memories.

As far as having a daughter, I have these horrible visions of myself shrieking like a banshee, "You are NOT leaving the house in THAT, young LADY!" and being a big fat hypocrite. I think it's the updated version of what people of my parents' generation had to figure out with regards to telling their kids about smoking pot. What do I tell my daughter about dressing suggestively when I did it myself? I mean, not to the extent that many girls do. But, you know, I wore cropped tops and belly chains and miniskirts. Usually not all at the same time, though -- I managed to look decent, I think. And when the first Delia's catalog came out and I bought a bunch of stuff from it, my mom made me send the miniskirts back. Heh. I just am not sure how I'll handle that situation -- and how Segev and I will deal with that situation together, because I'm guessing he will have even stronger reactions than I will. I'm aware of the body issues thing, too, and I'm really going to have to work on my food issues if I'm going to be able to raise kids. I want to be able to set a reasonable example for them, male or female.