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WCDT Strips 4336-4340 (25th-29th, August 2020)
Gnabberwocky:
As May leaves the apartment building, she finally allows herself to hope that this may really happen.
Promptly, the chassis store burns down, the fundraising account is locked by a ransomware attack, and May is obliterated by a meteor. Roko is able to recover the substrate, but fumbles it into the river as they cross the bridge, where it is eaten by a mutant perch.
Mordhaus:
Everything is better with strippers.
As long as they are doing it of their own free will as a capitalist pursuit. Could we make it so that instead of a capitalist pursuit, it becomes a socialist one? But wait, doesn't that make me terrible for objectifying their bodies for my own sick pleasure? Is stripping an art form or merely sexual exploitation? What if they are unionized strippers? That way they could avoid house fees by threatening to strike.
Are Strip clubs patriarchal organisations? What if the customers had to get naked also? Is it sex work? If so, is it anti-feminist (what if the strippers are male)?
8-)
Beast_Reborn:
All forms of sexual labor, including stripping, are ethically risky under capitalism, or any regime where the possibility exists that someone might be driven to such labor solely because it's the only way they can survive. What's important isn't whether money changes hands, but whether the person is genuinely free and consenting. "This is the only way I can stave off starvation and/or homelessness" does not count as consent for this purpose. In principle, the gender of the strippers doesn't matter, though in practice, the majority of sex workers are women, so it's a feminist issue.
Gus_Smedstad:
The end text - epitaph? - is "reminder that May is awful."
This doesn't seem so awful on a May scale to me. It's also something that Pintsize would say and take no flak. Primarily, I think, because of May's attitude while delivering the line, which is profoundly ungrateful for the effort that people are making to help her. Whereas if Pintsize said it, it'd be playful, not serious, and just his tendency to sexualize everything.
Even so, if I were to research a list of decidedly unpleasant things May has said, this wouldn't even be on my radar.
shanejayell:
Ah, May. I too would want strippers.
:D
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