In the bad
old days of the early
nineties in
New York City there was a practice among certain young and fucked up
men of surrounding and
molesting young girls in one of the
lukewarm piss filled public
pools that the city ran to keep the
youth man dem from getting unruly. The press got ahold of the fact that they called this whirlpooling and a summertime
headline frenzy was born. In typical New Yorkian fashion the city was totally unable to stop this from happening and while it was
statistically rare due to the size of the city for the whole summer we were treated to at least twice weekly reports of this
primitive bullshit. The
Mayors office with typical
David Dinkins incompetence (nice guy, piss poor mayor) created a hand wringing
PR campaign to try to convince these little proto
frat boys to stop treating women like animals. There was a TV commercial campaign and buttons were handed out (I still have mine). The buttons said:
Whirlpool Ain’t Cool
or
Don’t Diss Your Sis
Shockingly enough these
slogans failed to win the hearts and minds of the offending youth and whirlpooling continued on to greater or lesser degrees until it got too cold to go swimming. Now I hate
Rudy Guiliani a whole bunch. But he would have stopped this shit post haste with cops and task forces and the kind of
smarmy condescending brutality that this behavior called for. Sometimes it’s really hard to be a
knee jerk liberal kids, it really is.