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GUEST,kirsten Women Buskers and Sexual Safety (29) RE: Women Buskers and Sexual Safety 12 Aug 05


First of all, maybe you need some background on why I dress like a nun. I was ticketed and threatened with arrest 8 times in Santa Cruz for obscenity and peace disturbance for my busking. It was ridiculous. And for stupid crap. Like I do a song about the message from the media and how it affects women...it says "girls have got to act a certain way or else they ain't a-ok, always be willing, never get mad, or they call us bitch, they tell us we're bad" and later int hat song it says "girls don't fart, they only fluff" and I got tickets for fart and bitch! I won with the aclu, but it was nuts. So as this was going on, I started pitting the cop costume that cops on the street wear against a nun outfit, and I was pleased to see the public was not willing to go against a nun for a cop so once I wore the habit, I was pretty protected!

I am in a long line of political humor based on upbringing. I went to the same catholic high school as cheech of cheech and chong. Cheech has made fun of our shared upbrining to the tune of millions. You have probably listened to him yourself...You have all seen Father Sarducci on SNL, this idea of imitating someone from your religion as a joke is not new, it is only when women do it that it is a scandalous scene, apparently. No one is complaining about mocking priests, like sarducci! No one complains about Tom Lehrer's Vatican Rag?! Yes, women can make fun of religion, just like men!

And no, this article would not even be the same AT ALL if it just said safety, not sexual safety. Did you read it? Did you not see how women are most safe when they sing about heterosexual songs lamenting males leaving them crying? I said women who are as open in their sexuality as men are on the street go through DIFFERENT things in a double standard of sexuality, that is what the article SAYS...so yes, sexual safety IS in there and it is about the gender double standard, men can be singing about balling all night, I say fart and I am ticketed!


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