It has come to this, World: Secretary Of Education Forced To Take Up Stripping To Put Nation Through School.
Even the Secretary of Education, Arne Duncan, is Stripping Down now, but
it’s in the name of paying for kids’ education, y’all!
Saying it was his only real option to earn much-needed cash, U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan told reporters Tuesday he had been forced to start working as an erotic dancer at the local strip club Peaches in order to put the nation’s students through school.
Ok, yes…this article appears in The Onion. But they really
got the stripper dialogue down!
“Taking off your clothes in front of strangers isn’t for everyone, but I’m confident in my body, and regardless, I need to get the money somehow,” said Duncan, who performs under the stage name Velvet. “I’m not planning on doing this forever, just until all 49.8 million kids in our public elementary and secondary schools can graduate. Then I can go back to my regular job.”
There really are strippers out there in the clubs saying
this very thing with just a few slight differences.
As a former stripper I can sit here and say that yes, a lot
of us strippers can justify our jobs even when we don’t especially like what we
are doing. Hey! We’ve got to support the kids, right?
Of course, I would think that goes for most people who don’t
like or don’t feel 100% great about their work.
This brings up a real issue when it comes to strippers and a
great place for the rest of us to practice compassion—if we were to imagine
strippers (or insert a person/worker who you think is doing something immoral)
as moms trying to put their kids through school, feed the family and support
the household, could we have more compassion and understanding for them?
Perhaps we all “Strip Down” in some way in our lives when we
need to—and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
