{"id":548924,"date":"2010-04-30T17:37:17","date_gmt":"2010-04-30T21:37:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011748657_pleastofelonychargescouldclosestripclubsdownforgood.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-07-19T20:17:37","modified_gmt":"2010-07-20T00:17:37","slug":"pleas-to-felony-charges-could-close-strip-clubs-down-for-good","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/548924","title":{"rendered":"Pleas to felony charges could close strip clubs down for good"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Clubs still symbol of exploitation<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I was happy to see the story on the closure of local strip clubs linked to prostitution and racketeering in the Seattle area [\u201cProposed plea deal may close Colacurcio strip clubs,\u201d page one, April 23].<\/p>\n<p>My question is: Why are we allowing these clubs to open? A new club opened just a month ago in Renton, an area that had remained free of this blight on our landscape. Recently, Seattle gave the OK for a new club to open near Safeco Field. This is an area that many of our children frequent. Is that the message we want to pass on to our children, that sexism is OK?<\/p>\n<p>Throughout history, women have been exploited, held down the social ladder, held as property and killed with no regard. Sexist extremism is more rampant in our history and today than racism ever was.<\/p>\n<p>Between 1400 and 1800, roughly 7 to 11 million women were killed and tortured during the European witch hunts. It is sad that in today\u2019s \u201cenlightened\u201d society, the exploitation of women is allowed to continue in these clubs. How would you feel if your daughter were working in one of these clubs?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Timothy Finch, Renton<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Clubs still symbol of exploitation I was happy to see the story on the closure of local strip clubs linked to prostitution and racketeering in the Seattle area [\u201cProposed plea deal may close Colacurcio strip clubs,\u201d page one, April 23]. My question is: Why are we allowing these clubs to open? A new club opened [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548924","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548924\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}