Isn't it ironic? Stripper friends/normal friends
My man and I were talking about this the other day. We are an odd couple: a stripper and a high-school dropout. (Now if I said those words to a "normal" person, they'd probably imagine us to be a couple of complete degenerates.)
Its funny how there are all these stereotypes of strippers being drug-addled whore prostitutes who are just coasting through life (like Julia Roberts at the beginning of Pretty Woman---barely scraping by, all up on drugs and shit). God it couldn't be farther from the truth!!
All my stripper friends have actually DONE shit with their lives: bought houses, paid off loans, became landlords, have good credit, opened businesses. They all have their shit together! Not to mention making good money and gaining "life smarts" and understanding of psychological shit from our job.
On the other hand, my friends who aren't strippers fuck up left and right. Even the ones who graduated college and supposed to be mature, just fucken blow through their money and look for handouts. WTF? My man can relate---he's the only one of his friends (who are all college grads) who has his own business and actually sets goals for himself.
Sometimes I have to sit back and chuckle at the irony.
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I agree. I have some non-stripper friends who are truly messed up in life...like someone I knows claims disability for an imagined injury!
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cutey5032
Sometimes I have to sit back and chuckle at the irony.
Damn straight!
Interesting how some non-strippers look down on us, but they are the ones who are a mess.
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I totally agree:
I don't need my parents bailing me out every single time I'm in a jam. I don't have any babies, STDs, babies daddies, or a jerk/abusive boyfriend. The only drug I do is smoke weed now and then. I also view a lot of women who are my same age who are non-strippers as psychologically children. They don't understand when other people, whether they be dudes or other women are b.s.ing them when I am able to see through it practically immediately.
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I think it evens out. Anyone can be a bum.
Theres plenty of strippers that blow their paychecks just like white collar people do. Theres plenty of college grads (or anyone) who have their shit together and are responsible just as a lot of strippers are. Essentially I think whatever ever job we may be doing we are still going to be the same, either spending the money or saving it or never really working at all, it just so happens that some people pick to have a mainstream job and others don't.
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It is ironic that if I have a financial question or a "grown up" question about investments or real life I always turn to my stripper friends. I think the general public would never thing that a girl who goes by "Honey" would have all the answers lol whereas my normal friends usually don't know jack shit.
Of course there are exceptions..
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I do know a lot of strippers that spend money as soon as they have it. Girls are always saying "omg I need to make money, my electricity/lphone/whatever got shut off" even top earners.
I'm definitely a LOT more independent than my non stripper friends though, better with my money, and a lot closer to my goals of being debt free and getting a house and all that. I've grown up a lot since I started stripping a few months ago.
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cutey5032
On the other hand, my friends who aren't strippers fuck up left and right. Even the ones who graduated college and supposed to be mature, just fucken blow through their money and look for handouts. WTF? My man can relate---he's the only one of his friends (who are all college grads) who has his own business and actually sets goals for himself.
Sometimes I have to sit back and chuckle at the irony.
No shit! Non-strippers can be soooo hypocritical.
I've noticed that if you (the stripper) have even one bad day at work (where a custie grabs you, a manager does something underhanded, etc.) then they (the non-stripper friends) expect you to quit...just because the nature of the job is different. Yet they're all constantly complaining about hating their jobs, and don't take their own advice.
I laugh as I see all of the sorority girls walking around with the Prada purses and ridiculously expensive text books...that their parents bought for them!! We strippers are investing our money, saving up for our futures, AND having a good time doing it, yet we receive judgment just because we happen to be naked while doing so??
Pft. This is the biggest joke in the stripper community. I can't help but feel resentful sometimes for having to be the subject of judgment from people who are so outside of our little (big) world.
But Joplin is right: it does balance out. There are a lot of lazy, check-to-check people who are stripping, and lots of these people who work at Walgreens.
I think people on both sides of the equation (strippers vs. non-strippers) have reasons to generalize opinions about the opposite group.
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cutey5032
My man and I were talking about this the other day. We are an odd couple: a stripper and a high-school dropout. (Now if I said those words to a "normal" person, they'd probably imagine us to be a couple of complete degenerates.)
Its funny how there are all these stereotypes of strippers being drug-addled whore prostitutes who are just coasting through life (like Julia Roberts at the beginning of Pretty Woman---barely scraping by, all up on drugs and shit). God it couldn't be farther from the truth!!
All my stripper friends have actually DONE shit with their lives: bought houses, paid off loans, became landlords, have good credit, opened businesses. They all have their shit together! Not to mention making good money and gaining "life smarts" and understanding of psychological shit from our job.
On the other hand, my friends who aren't strippers fuck up left and right. Even the ones who graduated college and supposed to be mature, just fucken blow through their money and look for handouts. WTF? My man can relate---he's the only one of his friends (who are all college grads) who has his own business and actually sets goals for himself.
Sometimes I have to sit back and chuckle at the irony.
lol i totally feel you! my non-stripper friends (esp the college students) just don't *get* a LOT of things involving the REAL world. They live off of mommy/daddy money and whine when things dont go their way yet they dont really seem to be doing anything to Change their lives or take control. I have a sense of pride in the fact that all my stuff (bills/apartment/car/clothes/ANYTHING i own basically) is because of my hard work or my man's hard work. we both work hard and are proud to be self-supporting. Its nice to think that even though we're young (22), everything we own is because of US. I think he's the only non-stripper i know that really has his finances together like my stripper friends do but thats just cuz hes super self-motivated.
I'm really confused by my college friends' lack of motivation and the general mommy/daddy-money complex. Yet even some of my closer non-stripper friends act like they're ashamed of my job. :O why? I have my shit together. My stripper friends are all very proud of each other and very supportive of each other. Even though we're all half naked and half drunk half of the time its like the general mindset is more mature? Or is that just in my head?
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Yeah, my friends can be like this.
They dont know that Ive helped to support my family (since I was 15) and started stripping to be able to put some aside for ME while still helping out at home.
Ive travelled on my OWN money (not with bible camp that mummy and daddy paid for) and had some wonderful experiences.
I definitely grew more than them, in the time we've known each other.
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I was actually just thinking about this the other day. We've been hanging out w/my bf's friends and their gfs lately...and I was thinking outta all of them, I seem like the least likely to be a stripper (stereotypically speaking).