To the editor,
Re: “Strip club planned for Marpole,” July 4.
I’m quite disheartened about this proposal. A strip club is not what our neighbourhood needs. It’s like bringing the grotty Fraser Arms back again. I thought we had advanced as a civilization — women as sex objects is so regressive. Calling it a “gentleman’s club” doesn’t give it any legitimacy or sheen. As a [board] member of Marpole
Place and the Joy Kogawa Historical Society and as a Marpole resident, I’d rather we had an improved café life, an improved library, a renewed Marpole Place, a swimming pool, riverside walk areas, etcetera. This strip club is not needed and not welcomed. Sure, build it and they will come, but is that really going to improve the neighbourhood.
It will be one and one-half blocks from my front door. Yuck. The money it “earns” will line the pockets of people who don’t care about Marpole.
Patsi Longmire,
Vancouver
