Rinsing
Now to be fair this is more of a hobby than a full time job, although for some women it has become a career. It has nothing to do with washing clothes or dishes. I’m also not referring to a type of dance style currently popular in the youth culture, which apparently originated right here in Western Australia:
http://pilerats.com/written/light-easy/reserving-your-right-to-rinse/
That’s pretty cool, kids. It looks like a good aerobic workout. Hey, that kid did the worm. Scotty Too Hotty eat your heart out.
No, the rinsing I’m talking about refers to a more highbrow form of gold digging practiced by savvy women to solicit money and gifts out of sad, lonely, presumably middle aged and older wealthy men. It’s kind of like prostitution but without any tangible physical contact and no exchange of fluids.
It’s another type of commercial exchange made possible by the rise of social networking.
The only criteria for becoming a rinser is that you need to be:
A woman (though I’m hearing men do it too)
Young; and preferably
Hot.
So, like an athletic career, it only lasts as long as your youth and beauty.
The premise is that women post online clips of themselves and turn on their ‘charm’ to encourage men to buy them gifts or send them money. It’s like having an online sugar daddy (or daddies) that you don’t ever have to meet. It doesn’t even involve anything pornographic. In fact in most cases, the men don’t get anything in return, not even a thank you. Makes you wonder what’s in it for them, what sort of gratification do they receive?
The best rinsers will pose alongside a luxury item they desire or simply post a wish list of things they want – shoes, designer clothes, cars, purses, handbags, jewellery, perfume, it’s all up for grabs.
Be sure to follow all the drop down menus. It’s pretty amazing, the gall of some people. But that’s how the world works. If people are prepared to be exploited, someone will come along and exploit them.
This obviously raises a host of moral issues. Are the rinsers justified in taking advantage of an opening in the market? Should we applaud them for their entrepreneurial enterprise? Should we applaud people for such morally ambiguous and shallow behaviour? Should we be happy to see people exploiting their looks for profit? Is this another example of the general sense of entitlement of the reality TV generation? Is this yet another symptom of the inevitable decline of Western civilisation? Should Rupert Murdoch be charged with crimes against humanity… oops, that one just slipped out. It’s part of my personal subliminal advertising. Impeach Donald trump… dang, slipped out again.
As for the men, wow. I understand it from the financial humiliation and dominatrix perspective. I get the humiliation fetish. But Jesus Christ blokes. What happened to the good old days of kerb crawling and copping a cheap blowy in the back of your car off a street hooker? Ah but therein lies the rub (or the absence of a rub in the case of rinsing), perhaps this is empowering for women. This is a safe environment for women to enrich themselves and humiliate consensual men, so maybe, in some bizarre way, this is a giant leap forward for feminism.
Rinsers, I salute you.
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