Pole Dancing and Self-Censorship
“You better check yo self before you wreck yo self.” –Ice Cube, “Check Yo Self”
I was snooping through my son’s middle school yearbook recently when I came across a disturbing inscription from a fellow classmate. This preteen had taken up an entire page to draw a schematic of a strip club, replete with a stick figure woman doing a pole dance and another stick figure woman giving a lap dance to a stick figure man. How do I know that he intended it to be a lap dance? Mercifully, he handwrote “lap dance” with an arrow pointing to the stick