but generally i expect more from slashdot readers. I don't expect them to be any more compassionate than the next 'guy', but i do expect them to be more critical. Not critical as in "hey ugly, your breath stinks", but critical as in, "let's take conventional ideas about what it means to work in the sex industry and let's actually think about them". I don't see any of that going on here.
The reality of what you are talking about is far more complex than girl + fucked up life + booze/pills/hooking = stripper. This is the story that is told in our society and it exists in our collective unconscious. It's a handy myth, because it serves a purpose. It allows men to believe that the stripper he is paying to lap-dance him is already messed up and therefor somehow deserves to be treated like a whore. Ultimately this serves the stripper because she needs to get paid just like everybody else. The myth fails to serve the woman-as-stripper though, because the reality of each woman's situation is blanked out within this framework.
Besides the fact that making sweeping generalizations about an entire class of people is sloppy thinking.
got ahold of my dell laptop a couple months ago. I think she was pissed at me cause she pissed on my laptop. Right on the keyboard ( I had left in on the floor for some reason ). Trust me, she drenched that thing. Anyway, I set it aside for a couple weeks, fired it up the other day and it still works like a charm. Oh and i dropped it like three times. I swear it's a champ.
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but generally i expect more from slashdot readers. I don't expect them to be any more compassionate than the next 'guy', but i do expect them to be more critical. Not critical as in "hey ugly, your breath stinks", but critical as in, "let's take conventional ideas about what it means to work in the sex industry and let's actually think about them". I don't see any of that going on here.
The reality of what you are talking about is far more complex than girl + fucked up life + booze/pills/hooking = stripper. This is the story that is told in our society and it exists in our collective unconscious. It's a handy myth, because it serves a purpose. It allows men to believe that the stripper he is paying to lap-dance him is already messed up and therefor somehow deserves to be treated like a whore. Ultimately this serves the stripper because she needs to get paid just like everybody else. The myth fails to serve the woman-as-stripper though, because the reality of each woman's situation is blanked out within this framework.
Besides the fact that making sweeping generalizations about an entire class of people is sloppy thinking.
-isaac
i don't have a sig, i swear.
got ahold of my dell laptop a couple months ago. I think she was pissed at me cause she pissed on my laptop. Right on the keyboard ( I had left in on the floor for some reason ). Trust me, she drenched that thing. Anyway, I set it aside for a couple weeks, fired it up the other day and it still works like a charm. Oh and i dropped it like three times. I swear it's a champ.