Duke LAX stripper has a book out

http://abclocal.go.com/wtvd/story?section=news/local&id=6343080

I remember that the NY Times couldn't bear to call her a stripper. She was a "dancer".

 

Um, any newspaper will use the term "exotic dancer" or "dancer." Just sayin'. You may resume the trashing of a subject of rich kids' racial taunts.

 

Why "dancer" instead of "stripper"?

 

Newspapers use more formal titles for occupations, so as not to be perjorative. For example, we don't call a cab driver a "hack" or a flight attendant a "stew"

 

Or a politician a blight on the planet.

 

She deserves to be trashed. She is trash...and a stripper.

 

Why, precisely? She was racially brutalized, and I'd be tempted to cry rape, too, in the wake of that. And the rich kids got richer. They should send her a cut.

And I dunno if you're a copy editor or in charge of a desk. Professionally, would you mandate the use of the word "stripper" in copy?

 

Racially brutalized?

 

According to the state of North Carolina, she was not brutalized. And if you don't want to be called racist, sexist names, I would suggest you not work as a stripper/escort.

 

They should file a civil suit and go after her profits.

 

Complete nonsense.

I don't know what "hack" or "stew" has to do with this discussion so I will ignore it. She was a stripper, not a dancer. For the Times to continue to call her a dancer is the height of PC silliness.

 

Isn't prostitute a most accurate description?