printReality Shows May Be Setting Unrealistic Standards of Skankiness For Our Nation’s Skanks. “Hanging off stripper poles, vomiting into hot tubs. The average skank can’t keep up with that. One of the most damaging aspect of these shows it that they teach skanks to talk shit about other skans.” The Onion debates a pressing problem in fin de siècle America. Onion satire beats SNL any day.
Update (Jan. 2, 2010): HEAVE HO. It’s hard out there for a ho.
Ha! That is really funny. We have a running joke at our house – actually it is not really a joke but more of a wager – when we get a new video to watch, how long into the story until the pole dancer scene. It seems that there is a fascination with single moms struggling to raise a kid in a good home on a pole dancers salary, that finds its way into virtually any kind of story these days.
Agree about the Onion, but then again SNL’s bar sometimes never gets off the floor. And I suppose, unlike strangers being friends that haven’t yet been made, skanks would be women that have…
I prefer http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2WF6irnzAiI
Re the update, came across this
sometime back.
Perhaps it takes an outsider to note the stench, decay and disintegration.
These may be unrealistic and unattainable standards, but it gives them a goal. Many things in life are difficult. But like the ancient Chinese proverb states, “if one wakes up each day at sunrise and works until sunset, how can they not succeed.”