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Poor Powerless Eliot
Whoa, there, Nellie! Hanna, you're at least kinda sorta kidding, right? About initially being "lured into this notion that ... it was poor Eliot Spitzer who got played by a young vixen, a conniving madam, petty payment schemes, and a culture that suffocates its public figures.'' That time-honored, blame-the-girl view has cast XXers from Eve in her fig leaf to poor thong-flashing Monica Lewinsky as the temptress aggressors. But if there were anything to it, wouldn't pretty young women rule the world? Is it really any surprise that the emperor's call girl turns out to have been homeless and harmless? Paying for sex is always both pathetic and predatory. But could employment as a sex worker ever, for any woman, really be "a smart career choice"?
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