Naked Sushi Update
One might expect that the same media
that crucified a Seattle City Council member--Judy Nicastro--for describing
Seattle as "Mayberry with high-rises" would make an attempt to appear
sophisticated about sex. But nope. Someone in Seattle is naked! Some bullshit
artists are upset! And guess what? Around here that passes for news. Never mind
that bars in other cities all over the world have held similar "naked sushi"
nights without a peep of protest. Welcome to Mayberry, folks.
So the activists protested, the media reported, and the end results were entirely predictable: The anti-sex clenchbutts succeeded in making Bonzai Asian Pub & Bistro's naked-sushi night a sensation. An event that had been drawing 40-50 regular attendees now plays to a standing-room-only crowd numbering in the hundreds.
Memo to the idiot activists: It's 2003, not 1903. The historical problem with the objectification of women wasn't that women were treated like objects, ladies, but that women weren't treated like, or allowed to be, anything else. Now women can be objects when they wanna be (for fun, for love, for money, for a while) and then run off and be secretary of state or attorney general or the governor of Louisiana. Women are still objects--everything on earth, everyone on earth, is an object, no?--but they're no longer just objects. Women are objects and, oh, so much more.
Face facts, ladies: people always have and always will objectify the people they're attracted to. Men who wanna fuck women objectify women (at places like Hooters); women who want to fuck men objectify men (at places like Centerfolds). Gay men objectify other men (at places like Ashton Kutcher's asscrack), lesbians objectify other women (at places where Venus and Serena play tennis). The urge to objectify is universal, and so long as it's fairly and respectfully indulged, it's not offensive, not a problem, and not news.
And that's progress, yes?
More signs of progress: Objectification is a two-way street nowadays, with men coming in for their fair share. ( Tarzan on the WB: I rest my case.) If there's anything unseemly about the objectification going down at Bonzai, it's this: How come no boy plates?
If Bonzai did anything wrong, FFFT, it was not using boys as plates at the same time it was using girls as plates. That's why The Stranger will be hosting Naked Doughnuts, a special happy-hour event at Bonzai this Friday night at 6:00 p.m. Two good-looking guys will be laid out on the bar and covered with Top Pot doughnuts. Bonzai Asian Pub & Bistro is at 704 First Avenue. Ogle the boys, eat the donuts, fuck the clenchbutts.
So the activists protested, the media reported, and the end results were entirely predictable: The anti-sex clenchbutts succeeded in making Bonzai Asian Pub & Bistro's naked-sushi night a sensation. An event that had been drawing 40-50 regular attendees now plays to a standing-room-only crowd numbering in the hundreds.
Memo to the idiot activists: It's 2003, not 1903. The historical problem with the objectification of women wasn't that women were treated like objects, ladies, but that women weren't treated like, or allowed to be, anything else. Now women can be objects when they wanna be (for fun, for love, for money, for a while) and then run off and be secretary of state or attorney general or the governor of Louisiana. Women are still objects--everything on earth, everyone on earth, is an object, no?--but they're no longer just objects. Women are objects and, oh, so much more.
Face facts, ladies: people always have and always will objectify the people they're attracted to. Men who wanna fuck women objectify women (at places like Hooters); women who want to fuck men objectify men (at places like Centerfolds). Gay men objectify other men (at places like Ashton Kutcher's asscrack), lesbians objectify other women (at places where Venus and Serena play tennis). The urge to objectify is universal, and so long as it's fairly and respectfully indulged, it's not offensive, not a problem, and not news.
And that's progress, yes?
More signs of progress: Objectification is a two-way street nowadays, with men coming in for their fair share. ( Tarzan on the WB: I rest my case.) If there's anything unseemly about the objectification going down at Bonzai, it's this: How come no boy plates?
If Bonzai did anything wrong, FFFT, it was not using boys as plates at the same time it was using girls as plates. That's why The Stranger will be hosting Naked Doughnuts, a special happy-hour event at Bonzai this Friday night at 6:00 p.m. Two good-looking guys will be laid out on the bar and covered with Top Pot doughnuts. Bonzai Asian Pub & Bistro is at 704 First Avenue. Ogle the boys, eat the donuts, fuck the clenchbutts.
Dan Savage
of
the Seattle
Stranger Savages the
Clenchbutts. This is brilliant. Read the whole
thing.
A bar in Seattle serves sushi off a naked woman, some feminists find out, pitch a fit, and suddenly Seattle's "Naked Sushi" is all over the papers. It even made the Drudge Report!
You live in Seattle, Dan. Are your local feminist correct? Is "Naked Sushi" offensive? Or is it good, clean fun?
Fish Food for Thought
Dan replies:
Only in Seattle would eight "activists" fuming about the "prostitution of sushi" get respectful press attention and not the finger...
A bar in Seattle serves sushi off a naked woman, some feminists find out, pitch a fit, and suddenly Seattle's "Naked Sushi" is all over the papers. It even made the Drudge Report!
You live in Seattle, Dan. Are your local feminist correct? Is "Naked Sushi" offensive? Or is it good, clean fun?
Fish Food for Thought
Dan replies:
Only in Seattle would eight "activists" fuming about the "prostitution of sushi" get respectful press attention and not the finger...
Posted: Sat - November 22, 2003 at 12:41 AM
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