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In reply to the discussion: Stripper Posts Picture Of Night's Tips To Reddit; Internet Asks, 'Where Do We Sign Up?' [View all]CincyDem
(7,437 posts)30. If this were a guy, he'd be labeled "entreprenurial".
For me, this falls into the "good for her" category. She has taken what she has at this point in her life, some combination of physical attributes considered desirable by a group and an attitude to match, and she's turning it into cash.
In this economy, there's probably a lot more of this going on today. When repugs say "people should be more self reliant", well...this is what some (many?) will choose to rely on.
College kids have got to start reaching for creative ways to finance education and what we may have considered unacceptable in previous generations, given the landscape of choices afforded to us at that time. I found myself in a conversation with a sciences grad student who was funding grad school this way. I asked if she was worried about what future employers might think about this. She wasn't worried saying that, in her opinion, future employment decision makers weren't going to be as judgmental since many of them will likely have had to do things for their education that they "left off their resume".
Interesting perspective.
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The Straight Story
Apr 2013
OP
Not only gross guys, but grossness in general. A lot of retail workers have to do stuff like clean
Doremus
Apr 2013
#123
Are you surprised that people are trying to compare the actions of average creepy guys out in public
redqueen
Apr 2013
#86
Either that or they aren't so judgemental about what consenting adults do with their bodies
Major Nikon
Apr 2013
#128
It may vary by state but bouncers will throw a guy out in a second if a girl wants him gone.
alphafemale
Apr 2013
#110
Yep. It is the woman's choice to tolerate disgusting behavior, if a guy is paying enough.
redqueen
Apr 2013
#112
You are now claiming that there are no women exhibitionists who enjoy this work?
alphafemale
Apr 2013
#130
Women at Walmart don't have bouncers who will toss out people who get out of line.
alphafemale
Apr 2013
#116
Yeah, but at the strip club you have two guys the size of small horses ready to toss them
Drahthaardogs
Apr 2013
#148
If that's the choice. But really, Walmart is not the only other job pretty women can have.
Honeycombe8
Apr 2013
#156
and i bet some small-time drug dealers could do the same. as could some thieves and burglars.
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#6
a drug dealer may haul in that much but after he pays his connection off, there'd be a lot less.
hobbit709
Apr 2013
#7
i equate them all with a certain kind of economy, the economy of ghettoization. which is what's
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#12
Stripping, drug dealing and burglary are "being done to us" by the nefarious PTB?
Turborama
Apr 2013
#17
Last time I checked there were strippers during the hot economy periods when everyone had a job...
brooklynite
Apr 2013
#103
Ghettos are created by economics and/or politics. Appalachia is/was also a ghetto.
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#77
the economy of ghettos; the economy of places from which capital has disinvested.
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#83
I will sometime, but not now. Needs to be in reference to something, & there's nothing in
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#167
i think many less would, and this is borne out historically. it's not a 'hang-up', it's a fact.
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#85
that may be, but it's really irrelevant to my point, which is not to 'criticize the job'.
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#93
They can make you smille with your lips. They can't make you smile with your body. /nt
TheMadMonk
Apr 2013
#159
because it's the same economy. strip clubs, drugs, thieves = the economy of ghettoization.
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#14
people aren't forced to buy drugs, either. the economy of ghettoization includes the legal and
HiPointDem
Apr 2013
#16
Why the shock? I've known of girls who made two grand a night in backwoods trucker dives...
Blue_Tires
Apr 2013
#28
Most strippers don't make that kind of money. Most aren't doing it for their higher education.
redqueen
Apr 2013
#62
Surprise, surprise. Your first reply and it's about guns and disingenuous 'doors' bullshit.
redqueen
Apr 2013
#66
Thoughtful people here know what the issue you dishonestly reduced to 'doors' was really about.
redqueen
Apr 2013
#70
Did you not *just* take a look around to see which way the wind blows? n/t
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2013
#135
I haven't needed an excuse to slack. Are you guys getting this awesome weather up there?
Warren DeMontague
Apr 2013
#143
It is no less legitimate than using a few cherry-picked examples to illustrate "male privilege"
lumberjack_jeff
Apr 2013
#80
Of course there are many who do it and enjoy it, and make great money at it...
redqueen
Apr 2013
#90
I was in Costa Rica years ago and every female prostitute that approached you
madville
Apr 2013
#162
PETA suggests vegans have bigger sexual appetites in new campaign with Fallon
The Straight Story
Apr 2013
#99