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Another lame portrayal of a stripper on TV
Desperate Housewives now has a story line in which Terri Hatcher's character inherits a strip club from her husband (he died in a plane crash).
She meets a dancer who happens to be reading Moby Dick. She is just 'so surprised'! OMG!!! A dancer who read?! And she tells this dancer that she doesn't have to do VIP's for the rest of her life, "she can do anything she wants".
So, then dancer shows up at Hathcher's house and tells her that she quit the club and then asks her.....'You said I can do anything thing i want, so what do I do now'?::)
In the story, she has worked for 9 years, has no savings or job skills.
Once again, another negative depiction of a dancer. How original:-\
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I know, I saw that and was screaming at the tv. It made me mad because if she was smart, she'd probably either had savings or used dancing to advance into something else. I was hoping that the storyline would say she was studying to be a professor or something.
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Sadly, it's what sells TV shows. Perfectly normal well balanced dancers don't make for good story lines. Strippers that read Moby Dick and quit their job on a whim after 9 years do.
Plus, people want undemanding TV. 'Stripper' is a stereotype most people are familiar with, and they'd be jarred out of their couch potato mode if they were given an on-screen persona that actually made them think rather than sit there sipping the wine and scoffing the chocolates.
If its ratings v reality, ratings win every time.
Phil.
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Interesting. Is it unrealistic for someone to be a smart person who has worked at a job for a long time, quits, and is then a little lost because they're out of their comfort zone? I didn't see the episode so I'm not sure of the tone. What about it is dancer-specific?
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For the most part the depiction of a career stripper being unable to find gainful employment without any skills or education would be accurate, even if she does enjoy classical literature.
Ladies! Get your education in something useful. Learn math and science and computer technology and go out into the world with something, instead of staying in the club with nothing.
Think about it, how many dancers do you know that were able to maintain their income level after quitting dancing?
*I may be feeling a bit jaded today. Husband (who has a computer sci degree) can't find work that will pay more than $15/ hour no bennies.
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that is quite irritating, but maybe the stripper could have been studying classical literature at college? I did that, and got a teaching degree. I was reading "Pride and Prejudice" at the club hahaha.
Havent maintained my income though...took a good 20000 pay cut....
Wasnt one of the actresses on "Housewives" a stripper at one point?
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justifymylove
Interesting. Is it unrealistic for someone to be a smart person who has worked at a job for a long time, quits, and is then a little lost because they're out of their comfort zone? I didn't see the episode so I'm not sure of the tone. What about it is dancer-specific?
It was also the way the character was written.
If, this character were written as food-server, or a person that cleans out bed-pans (also jobs that don't really lead to a future) instead of a stripper, I don't think the main character would have the same motivation to 'save her'. What I'm saying is, what stops Teri Hatcher's character is that fact that she is shocked that the sexy dancer is even READING!
This is just the beginning of how pathetically this dancer character is written.
(I hope I'm making sense here).
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::)::)Yeah,a successful smart independent exotic dancer with assets and investments (many with diplomas),is worse than a trophy wife with no skills, and needs to be saved.::)
Sounds like someone wants to be a hero.
Wish I saw that one.
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In the U.K Desperate housewives is behind the U.S. Which husband dies.. is it Mike? :O
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Victoria669Jones
In the U.K Desperate housewives is behind the U.S. Which husband dies.. is it Mike? :O
Thankfully not. I'd stop watching if he died.
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^^ not telling........ ;)
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Hehe! Thank goodness it wasn't Mike, I love him!
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Haha i thought you were gonna write that she knocked on the door to say " you said i could do anything i want, so i want to do you."
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I thought i had seen something on tv that terri hatcher was gonna strip for her role.
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Realistically though, a show called Desperate Housewives clearly aimed at housewives, who generally aren't known for their support of the sex industry, is showing a stripper in an unflattering light???? How many of us are surprised???
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Victoria669Jones
In the U.K Desperate housewives is behind the U.S. Which husband dies.. is it Mike? :O
No, Carl, Hatcher's ex, the lawyer.
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Silky
Haha i thought you were gonna write that she knocked on the door to say " you said i could do anything i want, so i want to do you."
ironically it turns out the stripper character is a lesbian!
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She does do a stage set n some pole work. In a skimpy school girl set. I don't watch the show, but caught that flippin through the channels.
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Yeah because a dancer is silly enough to just walk away from dancing from one simple statement.
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Corey
No, Carl, Hatcher's ex, the lawyer.
Nooo I really Karl, he's funny and hot too! What's Bree going to do now? :-[
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lol maybe they should make a character out of me..I'm 38 folks, two kids, HAD the well paid 'respected' education career deal and NOW started stripping for ME hahahaa. Yeah I'm glad I didn't start stripping sooner, I'm glad college is done..but I sure love dancing now and I'm not using dancing to find something better :) What's better than working three nights a week , dancing, staying in shape, and banking more than full timers at office jobs?
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I did the whole office thing too, I.T actually. It sucked, I will never be a corporate bitch again!
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Shows like Desperate Housewives are designed to appeal to middle class women. They want to reassure themselves that strippers are really pitiable. These women want to ape men. They want the corporate job, the short haircut, and the affair with the 25 year old pool boy because it's what men do and some women think that anything a man does is inherently superior. Modern career women envy strippers because like Camille Paglia says much better than I can in one moment a little hussy wipes out years of accomplishment with a flash of tits and ass.
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Paris
For the most part the depiction of a career stripper being unable to find gainful employment without any skills or education would be accurate, even if she does enjoy classical literature.
Ladies! Get your education in something useful. Learn math and science and computer technology and go out into the world with something, instead of staying in the club with nothing.
Think about it, how many dancers do you know that were able to maintain their income level after quitting dancing?
*I may be feeling a bit jaded today. Husband (who has a computer sci degree) can't find work that will pay more than $15/ hour no bennies.
I agree that one should have a fall back plan for when stripping comes to an end. But stripping is a respectable art form, not a dead end job.