I dunno, if they’d painted the building and called it Bob’s House o’ Hooters, that’d be one thing, but calling it The Schoolhouse, deliberately trading on the buildings history, opens them up to more criticism, IMHO.
Yeah, that’s pretty funny. But I wouldn’t expect a more enlightened response from people who think that a strip club is a whorehouse.
“Captain, the sarcasmometer is detecting something, but it’s far too subtle to get a lock on direction.”
I’ve become convinced of late that the Puritans are being unfairly blamed for this kind of silliness.
The legacy of the Puritans isn’t really responsible for the fundamentalist, prohibition-mongering conservatism that people in this thread are (properly) lambasting.
Maybe I went to the sleazy places mentioned above, but I have been in strip clubs across this fair land of ours, and I can say that Every Single One offered prostitution services. Not every dancer, not every sex act, and some places were far worse than others, but the drugs and prostitution were well known at these places.
Exact locations please. I am lonely.
I think I understand them being upset. I’m not saying I agree, but I think I get it. For some reason, this school has a lot of nostalgic overtones for people, and they’d rather see it torn down than used for a type of business they don’t support. They also hate that it employs out-of-towners, probably because of small town pride, but maybe also because there are legitimate job losses that, if the school were converted to another type of business, might actually get jobs.
But the one I think is most likely is this odd type of squick some people have for schoolhouse fantasy. I could see someone thinking it was a way to indulge in in pedophilia. People on this board have equated anime with pedophilia, so such lack of understanding of fantasy versus reality makes sense. It’s the same argument that says that porn causes sexual deviance, rather than providing an outlet for it.