Sixty-six-year-old Doris Nicastro, AKA former city council member Judy Nicastro’s mom, rips into the City Council’s recent decision to ban lap dances, require bright lighting in strip clubs, and restrict tipping to tip jars, among other ridiculous new regulations designed to put strip clubs out of business, on her blog.
Nicastro writes:

I’m angry for the unemployed strippers. They’ve been treated badly by their elected officials. Lap dances are a lot less shocking than the sexual services offered up every week in the alternative papers. I expect that the employment options for these women aren’t between stripping or management slots at Microsoft. Now they’ll have to join the mass of other workers applying for crap jobs (aren’t they all!) involving long hours, and low pay, maybe serving food, packing apples or stocking shelves for $10 an hour and no benefits.

Notice too how Seattle’s many ‘Nam-era, windbag, progressive pundits with their greying pony tails, fat asses and jaunty berets, don’t even see this as an issue! I gave up expecting a feminist sensibility from Seattle’s women writers long ago. Gay issues, wounded puppies, the political condition of Iraq’s women are what they ponder. Their level of concern for the financial interests of the women of a different class, in their own city, their own country? Zero.

What Seattle needs is more “pissed-off old ladies” like Doris and fewer schoolmarmish political opportunists like most members of the Seattle City Council.