The “vegan stripper” who exchanged direct messages with Cory Booker on Twitter unleashed her indignation, calling out the media for paying so much attention to a “non-scandal” and singling out Gawker for its “puritanical bullshit.”
In a guest column on Mediaite, Lynsie Lee (who is not a “vegan stripper,” as she’s often been called, but a stripper at a vegan strip club) blasted the media that rushed to report on her Twitter habits.
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“At midnight, calls and emails start pouring in from reporters. It was surreal. How could something so simple be seen as a scandal? Oh wait, I’m a stripper and nude model (how dare someone flirt with my kind!). More importantly, how did they get my telephone number??”
Lee’s rant was meant for the media as a whole, but she did single one publication out for criticism: “Gawker released a story about the friends I met up with in New York, targeting one of them who seems to be a big deal in social media there.”
“That really pissed me off. The article basically implied that since I am a stripper, anybody I associate with is a bad person, especially men … So, fuck you, Gawker and your puritanical bullshit.”
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She also revealed that she is in possession of “Nightline’s” mini-cam, which the ABC show sent to her to film her daily life and thoughts for a possible segment: “After the government shutdown (real news), [Nightline] postponed, and will probably not come at this point. But I still have this mini-cam, so maybe I did get some milk from the teat of this non-scandal?”
Lee did have kind words for at least one media outlet: “I shot for ‘Hustler’ in August and once the news hit, they decided to give me a bigger spread; which is awesome.”