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<title>Slog - Comments on Seattle Center Makes an Example of The Stranger</title>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea</link>
<description>On Tuesday afternoon, a Seattle Center manager sat down about 20 groundskeepers at a meeting to announce that certain materials would be forbidden in their break room. The issue came up because a staff member discovered pornographic playing cards on top of a locker. The sexual harassment policy at the Seattle Center, governed by the city, bans nude and sexual images in public areas. So the manager said the nude playing cards were prohibited, and so were the city’s two weekly papers, due to the erotic escort ads in the back of the papers. “We were told … that you...</description>
<copyright>Copyright 2008</copyright>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 14:53:11 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by anotherone</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Seriously? Are Christians going to be playing the perpetual victim card from now on? If that's the case, I think we need to give them something to feel victimized about. </p>]]></description>
<author>anotherone</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197444</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197444</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:00:44 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by jim</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>wow.  that's like ALMOST worth mentioning.</p>]]></description>
<author>jim</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197455</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197455</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:06:00 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by fARTing</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I began reading The Stranger on an Alaska Air fight from Seatac to San Diego.  A flight attendant asked me to put it away.  Said something to the effect some of the passengers were/would be offended.</p>]]></description>
<author>fARTing</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197463</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197463</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:12:02 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Sargon Bighorn</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The Stranger is FILTH and we love it that way.</p>]]></description>
<author>Sargon Bighorn</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197470</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197470</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:19:42 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Tiktok</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Man, nail one guy to cross and they're ALL grumpy forever.</p>]]></description>
<author>Tiktok</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197478</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197478</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:21:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by noneother</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>"By the Seattle Center’s own admission, the employees were told about prohibited materials, and the newspapers were used “as examples” of the types of things that violate the policy."</p>

<p>where did you learn to read?  the quote specifically says:</p>

<p>"The back sections [of the papers] were used as examples..."</p>

<p>the "back sections" not "the newspapers".  are you dense or what?  and who says that seattle center workers understand what they are being told?  you obviously don't understand.</p>]]></description>
<author>noneother</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197487</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197487</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:28:23 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Stranger fan</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>What's this "The Weekly" you speak of?</p>]]></description>
<author>Stranger fan</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197493</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197493</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:30:39 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Vince</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Book banning Bible thumpers suck!</p>]]></description>
<author>Vince</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197506</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197506</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:43:19 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by max solomon</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>just like all civil-sanctioned marriage, all reading materials should be banned at all workplace breakrooms.</p>]]></description>
<author>max solomon</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197514</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197514</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:47:25 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Will in Seattle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Um, it's the "Christians" that are perusing those pages, IMHO.</p>

<p>Just ask prostitutes which group is their best customers ...</p>]]></description>
<author>Will in Seattle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197534</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197534</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 15:58:50 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Catalina Vel-DuRay</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>There's a lot of Christianists on the city payrolls. Until very recently, it was quite common to open meetings at City Light with a prayer. Just the other day one of the elderly bats I work with (she's 80. Why isn't there a mandatory retirement age?) was whining that Obama would take away our Bibles in the workplace.  </p>]]></description>
<author>Catalina Vel-DuRay</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197547</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197547</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:03:08 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by rjh</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>If you work in the corporate world you want to be careful about having pictures of naked men and/or women in plain sight at your desk, or on your screen.</p>

<p>Don't assume the complaint will come from Christians; it's just as likely to be a sexual harassment claim. In any case, it's trouble you probably want to avoid.<br />
</p>]]></description>
<author>rjh</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197555</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197555</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:08:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by flamingbanjo</title>
<description><![CDATA[<blockquote>Don't assume the complaint will come from Christians; it's just as likely to be a sexual harassment claim</blockquote>

<p>In my experience, those things are not necessarily mutually exclusive.  I know of one workplace where a sensitive Christian waitress claimed sexual harassment because the flamboyantly gay cooks were talking among themselves and being, well, flamboyantly gay. She claimed their saucy conversations and off-color humor created a hostile work environment. (The cooks received  warnings and had the incident noted on their records.)  It's pretty subjective when the standard for an infraction is the hurt feelings of the claimant.  And most companies err to the side of caution at the mere mention of legal action.</p>

<p>Some people are more easily offended than others.  And some people have raised taking offense to an art form.</p>]]></description>
<author>flamingbanjo</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197576</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197576</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:20:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Greg</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The Stranger is a terrible paper and no one should read it. As for the Weekly, we do not speak of it.</p>]]></description>
<author>Greg</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197638</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197638</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:52:21 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by lusk</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>Would the anonymous employee care to anonymously comment on exactly where this breakroom is?  Maybe it's not accessible to the public, but I'd be happy to leave more pornographic/commie/deranged newspapers lying in prominent view OUTSIDE the area, when I happen to be in Seattle Center...</p>]]></description>
<author>lusk</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197645</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197645</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 16:56:05 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by DHDB</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>The mere presence of The Stranger, Seattle Weakly, Interview Mag, Rolling Stone, etc...anything  short of Hustler (well ok Playboy/girl too) is not a good enough reason to ban it.  If you don't like it, move to Wyoming.</p>]]></description>
<author>DHDB</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197665</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197665</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:04:40 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Mikki</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>@10: So by "pageant contestants" you actually meant "prostitutes". </p>]]></description>
<author>Mikki</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197715</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197715</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Thu, 06 Nov 2008 17:39:14 -0800</pubDate>
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<title>Comment by Will in Seattle</title>
<description><![CDATA[<p>I've known people who were one and not the other, @17.  But one presumes there are those who are or have been both.</p>

<p>On the other hand, you should see what they have to read at barber shops ...</p>]]></description>
<author>Will in Seattle</author>
<link>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197992</link>
<guid>http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/11/seattle_center_bans_the_stranger_and_sea#c1197992</guid>
<category>Media</category>
<pubDate>Fri, 07 Nov 2008 01:19:29 -0800</pubDate>
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