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Attention, Ugly Women: You Do Not Have the Right to a Job as a Stripper

You might not need to be told this. Obviously, being a stripper is one of those jobs — like NASCAR driver — where good looks are very important. Most ugly women understand this concept, and therefore seek careers as tenured university professors, a field where looks are inconsequential. However, vocational guidance counselors forgot to explain this to Rianne Theriault-Odom:

VAN NUYS – A Tarzana woman was found guilty Thursday of dousing an exotic dancer and single mother with gasoline and setting her on fire last year outside the Tarzana bikini bar Babes N’ Beer.

Rianne Theriault-Odom, 28, who had been rejected as a dancer at the club, faces mandatory life sentences for the guilty verdicts of one count each of aggravated mayhem and torture. The Los Angeles Superior Court jury acquitted her of a third count, attempted murder and the lesser charge of attempted voluntary manslaughter…

During the trial, witnesses said that Theriault-Odom, who had been rejected for a job at Babes N’ Beer, had feuded with Busby and felt disrespected by her.

Theriault-Odom testified that “I felt offended – I felt she was trying to punk me. I had to stand up for myself. That’s the way it is on the streets.”

The victim, Roberta Dos Santos Busby is – or at least prior to this crime was – an attractive woman. Theriault-Odom is ugly. And therefore, when Theriault-Odom didn’t get a stripper job, she blamed Busby.

That may not make sense to you, but I’m sure Robert Reich or Paul Krugman could explain it. As every liberal knows, poor people are poor because rich people have all the money.

Theriault-Odom was just applying Liberal Logic^TM to her own situation: Ugly women are ugly because beautiful women are monopolizing all the good looks.

There is legal precedent for Theriault-Odom’s belief. About 30 years ago, during the Carter administration, feminists noticed that airline flight attendants — who were called “stewardesses” back then – tended to be young, attractive and cheerful.

This was clearly unfair, so there was a federal civil-rights lawsuit and now all U.S. airline flight attendants are either ill-tempered, middle-aged, homely women or snarky unhelpful gay men.

However, during the Reagan years, Ed Meese put a stop to such shenanigans before the courts could apply that social-justice principle to the strip-club industry, which is why most strippers don’t look like Joy Behar, Whoopi Goldberg or Andrew Sullivan.

Yet.

God help us if the Rianne Theriault-Odoms of the world unite for a class-action lawsuit now. There can be no doubt which side of that issue Sonia Sotomayor would be on.

I’m just sayin’…

Blame the liberals? Rightly so, I say.

It’s supposed to be all about making sure everyone’s treated right. It ends up being about forming a criticism-proof umbrella weatherproofed with the epoxy of irrational populism, extending it over all kinds and types of violations of genuine God-given human rights…like not being burned alive, as one of the basics…and then deliberating to see what atrocities could & should be hauled under that umbrella.

There’s a scene in Atlas Shrugged in which Henry Rearden acts as his own defense at trial, and completely stymies the judges as well as the system itself — simply by cornering them and making them admit to what they are doing, rather than conveniently pretending to be doing something else. It may be a little bit of a stretch, but I think that fits this. The trial is not about all of mankind being treated equitably and each individual enjoying an avenue of redress of grievances. It cannot be about a civilized society, and what it takes to make one go. It must, of necessity, disintegrate into a deliberation about the conditions under which we do not want a civilized society anymore. About when and if barbaric behavior becomes okay.

Because of a person’s feeeeeeeelings.

I’m sure the jury will be availed of all the expert testimony from mental health professionals about what might have temporarily legitimized this brutal assault. These days, that is just a given. I would hope they also hear from some burn victims, and their doctors. I hope the jury is told about how incredibly agonizing it must be to have burning gasoline sizzling away against your skin, destroying it layer by layer. I hope they hear from some victims who were conscious during their injuries, trying to put the fire out, and failing to. Ever see gasoline burn?

Hang the bitch. Yeah, I mean it. She doesn’t possess sufficient recognition of the implied social code that exists among us, to co-exist safely with others. That’s my litmus test. Scaffold in the town square, re-create that scene from the pilot episode of Deadwood, and when it’s over you can line up to congratulate me on my incredible left-wing liberal compassion. Because a middle-of-the-road solution, in my book, is she goes out by the same means she deployed to deal with others.

Sadly true, all of it.

Beauty Is Only Skin-Deep, But Ugly Goes Clear To The Bone.
- rob | 02/14/2010 @ 14:54
I’m with you, Morgan. When I began reading this story, the very first thought in my head was, “This bitch ought to be shot.”

I’m disappointed that the jury didn’t convict her of attempted murder. Seriously…you try to burn someone with gasoline and that doesn’t count as trying to kill them?
- cylarz | 02/18/2010 @ 01:16

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