The always tasteful folks at the strip club Déjà Vu must've been out of town a couple weeks ago when there was a large protest at TCF Stadium over the name of the D.C.-area NFL team.
In keeping with its business model, Déjà Vu went the extra mile in words and imagery to insult women, and particularly the Thanksgiving contributions of American Indians, in a City Pages ad. The advertisement shows a photo of a scantily clad woman adorned with ropes and sporting what appears to be a feather in her headdress, promoting a pre-Thanksgiving event with a name I'm not repeating. Hint: The prefix is a vulgarism for the term teats.
"Native American Heritage Month has become an excuse for men to hypersexualize Native women in pub crawl and strip club ads," wrote @_RuthHopkins on Twitter.
The ad was brought to my attention Tuesday morning. By midafternoon the ad had disappeared from citypages.com. But I have a copy of the ad, in case anyone wants to deny it ever existed.
Neither an editor at City Pages nor a manager at Déjà Vu have returned my phone calls. However, Déjà Vu started following me Tuesday on Twitter after I tweeted a message asking a manager to call me. Wednesday afternoon I went to the Washington Avenue club and was greeted by an employee who identified himself as a manager but said that only manager "Michael" could discuss the ad in question.
When "Michael" calls (ha), I'll ask if he was abreast of the recent protest of the football team in need of a name and mascot change, and, if so, how did this ad get by the detail-oriented Déjà Vu censors?
What did I just write?
No encore for fancy astronaut
I did my best to coax a melody out of Commander Chris Hadfield, the singing astronaut, when he was at Fox 9.