To Strip or Not to Strip

Today in my first women and the law class, the professor (the head of UCLA's women studies department, who seems great, by the way) asked us to anonymously write down what we thought would signal that we have arrived at a point where men and women in the United States are treated equally. You got all the responses one would expect. Death of gender stereotyping. Female president. Salary equality, or at least comparability. And one person wrote down, "women stop stripping, and men stop paying to see women strip." Now, I've been in a strip club exactly once in my life, and no question strip clubs perpetuate sexism, but geez, if eliminating the desire in men for lap dances from attractive women is one of your primary goals towards a more equitable society, I don't think you're going to get very far.