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May 28, 2008

Day Around the Bay

Violet Blue's rebuttal to Ben Wachs' "Prostitutes et Johns" slam. [VB]
Basketball abstraction. [Curbed]
Moratorium on the words "hipster" and "douchebag" for Mission dwellers/fans? Yes. [Mission Mission]
Is it OK to ask friends to help with your reception? [CHOW]
The California State Council of Service Employees need a fact-checker. [The Snitch]

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Comments (16)

[1] | 05/28/08 06:03PM

Sorry, Violet, but I liked Ben's post. And your rebuttal didn't win me back. In a dramabattle like this, I think it inevitably comes down to whoever's post is funnier.

[2] | 05/28/08 06:26PM

The problem is that although "douchebag" is overused, there really isn't another term for the particular sort of individual it describes - a naturally useless, boring, entitled jerk, somewhere between 25-35, likely flush with money and a casual arrogance he didn't earn and doesn't care to examine. If anyone has a better epithet for this guy, I'd love to hear it.

[3] | 05/28/08 06:38PM

Excellent definition, polkaroo2.

[4] | 05/28/08 06:41PM

wow it's a bad day for the Weekly, someone apparently took their "best of" list to task for its um, creative geography...

http://cedichou.blogspot.com/2008/05/weekly-best-of.html

ah well.

[5] | 05/28/08 06:47PM

I'm Team Violet all the way. Although I agree that the SF Weekly post was funny, I'm pretty sure it wasn't intentionally funny.

It's just funny that a grown man (Wachs) thinks sex (or sex work) is so icky and bad.

It never ceases to amaze me how much vitriol gets thrown VB's way. The hatred expressed for her every time she writes a column on SF Gate in the comments section is astonishing.

[6] | 05/28/08 07:57PM

It never ceases to amaze me how much vitriol gets thrown VB's way. The hatred expressed for her every time she writes a column on SF Gate in the comments section is astonishing.

It's the shut-ins and trolls that haven't been laid since the bicentennial... poor souls.

Personally, I think the sex-workers in Vancouver,B.C. are better, WAYYYYY better! Just a tip for those headed up there for the winter Olympics.

[7] | 05/28/08 09:01PM

Is it wrong for me to want to spank VB thoroughly on her pasty white bottom?

Ah, call me old fashioned...

: )

[8] | 05/28/08 11:25PM

I find VB's columns rather self-indulgent, and they often blur the line between marketing an industry or company and reporting in a way that would unacceptable for most anything besides sex. Nearly every column is ultimately about how cool and in she is with the inner circle of SF's sex culture. I find it kind of boring. Making fun of that kind of self-congratulation is inevitable.

[9] | 05/29/08 06:51AM

Sex work is all fine and dandy since we're such an enlightened city & culture here; but nothing is going to re-educate me to not want to vomit when I see used rubbers along my street curbs, or the high heeled trannys trolling around my neighborhood in the middle of the night, or the johns (or pimps?) cruising around in their dark colored SUV's with no license plates.

[10] | 05/29/08 07:48AM

I work in the SF sex industry and I found Ben Wachs' column to be tongue-in-cheek and not so much an attack. It made me laugh.

[11] | 05/29/08 07:59AM

BTW I enjoy the term "jagweed" instead of "douchebag".

[12] | 05/29/08 08:45AM

On one of the other topics... I usually end up getting some action when I tend bar at a friend's reception.

[13] | 05/29/08 09:38AM

Thank you ievans! Apparently I'm not the only one who think she is extremely narcissistic. And I primarily agree with her. But whenever she responds to someone's challenge of her point of view, she gets really self-centered and makes personal attacks--never actually responds to the basis of the person's argument. I once posted a retort to a post on her website and she never approved it for posting. I can guarantee that I was very polite. It wasn't like I was being a troll.

[14] | 05/29/08 11:11AM

Polkaroo2, your poorly diguised insecurity shines through. People who belittle those they don't know, but judge on appearance, brand of auto, tightness of jeans etc. are the real douchebags.

[15] | 05/29/08 12:47PM

Violet Blue's website is blocked (gee, what a surprise) so I couldn't check out her rebuttal, but I agree that his article was meant to be tongue-in-cheek.

Nothing against her or the topics she covers, but I have to admit that she does seem to be a bit self-important and gives off a I'm-so-much-cooler-than-you-are vibe in her column. I find that I've been clicking on her link at SFgate less and less these days.

[16] | 05/29/08 03:26PM

Really fellow SFisters, what does VB have to offer? Why the Chron chose her to write a column is beyond me. She may be interesting and cutting edge to a Kansas housewife but here she just induces yawns.