RE: “Love Notes” [Feb 8], in which Kristine Munholland criticized the Mercury’s decision to run a feature about sexist band names [“Is Your Band Sexist, or are Womxn Just Annoying?,” Feature, Feb 1] in the same issue as an ad for strip club Club Rouge. “You don’t get to have it both ways,” wrote Munholland. “Are you for challenging privilege and countering oppression, or are you fine with the status quo that treats women as objects?”
If Kristine is so against strip clubs, maybe she would like to pay my ever-increasing rent, my tuition, or my quintuple digit medical debt? Or maybe she would like to pay me a living wage working in the field I am currently going to school for? Or perhaps she should just be grateful that life has allowed her the privilege of a sufficiently paying nine to five, and stop trying to make life worse for women who are just trying to keep their heads above water. I agree that it is a great failure on behalf of our society that stripping is the best economic opportunity available to many women in this city, including myself. However, self-righteousness stemming from a position of privilege is not constructive.
Anonymous