The 21st Century Scarlet Letter
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Wow.
“THE WOMAN WHO ROCKED NY” from The Drudge Report, a front and center thumbnail and a link from The New York Times. Is this the Scarlet Letter of the 21st century??
I’ve been listening to this Eliot Spitzer thing from the moment this story hit the news wire (thanks to CNBC). Despite the massive public interest in the case of Spitzer, I really feel that this media attention on this girl was really unnecessary (read: cruel and unusual punishment).
I, unlike Charlie Gasparino, don’t think that prostitution should be legalized (I’m actually surprised that no YouTube video clips has been uploaded given the countless times he expressed his advocacy for the legalization of prostitution on air on CNBC on Monday). But I can not even fathom what this 22 year old girl is going through.
As I, out of curiosity, find myself helplessly reading all of these things about her I can’t help but wonder if Jesus would say the same thing to her as he did to the woman at the well. I really love Vox’s whole idea of “living the church”, it is really challenging. I wonder in this context what I would say to her. Somewhere inside all of this media madness, I think we forget that Ms. Dupre is somebody’s friend, somebody’s daughter, and at the very least, a person. What would you say to Ashley Dupre?
*I should also note that all of this sympathy will go out the window the moment I hear that she is shopping a book/movie deal.
