Brickbat: Keeping Your Daughters off the Poles

Charles Oliver | 11.8.2013 6:00 AM

In Wales, the Swansea University student union has banned a pole-dancing fitness class. Union officials say pole dancing is linked to the "sex industry" and it "upholds and bolsters sexist attitudes and behaviors."

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Agammamon 11 years ago

say police dancing

Does this have anything to do with "footloose"?
1. H. ReardEn 11 years ago
  
  Lardo Sardo is writing Brickbat articles under the name of Charles Oliver.
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    I miss WomSom, it had better humor value than Lardo Sardo.
    1. Almanian! 11 years ago
      
      Wow. Jack Frapp is not gonna like that oen biut.
      
      http://www.anonbotunion.de/freestuff
2. Austrian Anarchy 11 years ago
  
  police dancing
  
  I think it has something to do with obscene advances towards dogs.
invisible furry hand 11 years ago

This is just discrimination. Poles need love too
1. BakedPenguin 11 years ago
  
  I know you're a girl ifh, so I get why you didn't link to a picture of say, her, but for the other women and gay guys, you could have at least linked to a good looking guy.
  1. invisible furry hand 11 years ago
    
    I wasn't feeling altruistic, just puckish. But you have shamed me. Behold Piotr Adamski
    1. Night Elf Mohawk 11 years ago
      
      What's "YMCA" in Polish?
    2. BakedPenguin 11 years ago
      
      ...you have shamed me
      
      I'll do that, because I'm a horrible person. But I'm sure the women and gay guys who follow will thank you.
    3. Agammamon 11 years ago
      
      Dear lord! That picture makes me feel a little confused and flustered.
Jquip 11 years ago

Artificial scarcity in the horizontal market. Fear the might of the Guild of Bearded Clams.
1. Live Free or Diet 11 years ago
  
  They just create the Black Market.
  
  Great name for a cat house, huh?
Acosmist 11 years ago

You women are too stupid to understand that this practice promotes sexism, so we have to step in to stop you.
1. Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago
  
  Their bodies, their choice?!
  1. Bean Counter 11 years ago
    
    If THEY like your choice, you can keep it.
  2. Doctor Whom 11 years ago
    
    You just don't get it, do you? "Choice" means abortion and only abortion.
JidaKida 11 years ago

Sounds like a solid polan to me dude.

http://www.Privacy-Road.tk
1. Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago
  
  I see what you (almost) did there, anonybot.
2. Rich 11 years ago
  
  JidaKida, that's jsut too sophisticated.
  
  Sadly, I'm beginning to think you may really be a human.
  1. Sigivald 11 years ago
    
    You know, it would be trivial in theory for Reason to just detect the URL of his link and silently kill the comments...
    
    Therefore - paranoid mode engaged! - they're in on it.
    
    How much is Privacy Road paying you, Gillespie? HUH?
Zombie Jimbo 11 years ago

From the article

...inextricably linked to the multi-million pound sex industry...

Take a lot of pole dancers to reach several million pounds
1. Swiss Servator, I got nothing. 11 years ago
  
  We could give them each a platter of sausage rolls to speed things up?
  1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
    
    No, no, no.
    
    But if you assume that the average woman weighs in somewhere between 100 and 150 pounds (note, I said average) - I'll use 100 because it makes math easier - then it'll only take 20,000 pole dancers before we're past two million pounds. I think we can find 20k dancers, even in just the UK.
2. Agammamon 11 years ago
  
  Not in Britain.
Bill Dalasio 11 years ago

"Union officials say police dancing is linked to..."

...dog shootings with a demi-pointe and plie?
1. jester 11 years ago
  
  Apparently the tech Cupertinos still haven't corrected the spell check.
jester 11 years ago

Sexist attitudes. Like there is only one kind of girl in the entire world and there is only one proper way to court her? Talk about intolerant and sexist. So there is only one way to be feminine? Fuck off, sex slaver.
Night Elf Mohawk 11 years ago

Maybe, like hearing dogwhistles might make you the dog, thinking that this "upholds and bolsters sexist attitudes and behaviors" when the women involved don't, makes you the sexist.
0x90 11 years ago

What's wrong with being sexy?
1. UnCivilServant 11 years ago
  
  It others us uglies.
2. Rich 11 years ago
  
  It makes women into one-dimensional caricatures of themselves.
  1. Almanian! 11 years ago
    
    faaaaaaaaaaaaag!
    
    /Cartman
  2. Rich 11 years ago
    
    NTTAWWT!
  3. Bill Dalasio 11 years ago
    
    What's a one-dimensional caricature? To be able to see the caricature it would have to be at least in two dimensions.
3. Mainer2 11 years ago
  
  What's wrong with being sexy?
  
  +11
Eduard van Haalen 11 years ago

A ban on pole dancing? So polka clubs are fronts for prostitution?
FreeRoamer 11 years ago

I can just imagine what some of these student union women behind this idiotic ban look like. Sorry but any workout that encourages women to wear sky high heels with leg warmers should be celebrated. And I say that as a woman. Being and feeling sexy is a good thing.
Sigivald 11 years ago

What we need here is to get the SlutWalk contingent to oppose the AntiSex contingent.

With any luck they'll mutually annihilate and maybe people there can get on with "learning".

(Well, okay, that's unlikely, but at least they'll be too busy in-fighting to bother other people, in either direction.

I used to think Student Government was purely bad, but then I realized it kept the sort of people who like Student Government busy, in a way that basically lets them only bother themselves and people who care what they think.

And that's usually a win.

The only problem here is that someone let Those People control class selection...)

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