http://dir.salon.com/story/sex/featu...ank/index.html
This seems less derogatory than most articles. What is your reaction to it?
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http://dir.salon.com/story/sex/featu...ank/index.html
This seems less derogatory than most articles. What is your reaction to it?
Honestly, I am offended by the wording of this part of the article:
Dancers make a lot of money compared to women working in some other low-skilled occupations, but they are downwardly mobile: Women can't do this much past their mid-30s.
I would not consider myself "low-skilled." I have my BFA from a prestigous university where I studied dance for four years, and people often consider any form of dance "low-skilled." I'm sorry, but please. There are all different kinds of skills, talents and intelligences in the world.... The fact that I know very well how to dance and how to talk to customers is a SKILL that took me years to cultivate. I find the tone of the article condescending, as if dancing was something the author did even though she was "above it all." She later goes on in the article to say she never had 500 dollars in petty cash to go out and party with, which leaves me to imagine that she herself was "low-skilled" at the art of stripping, and therefore views it in a negative light.
I read the article and my take on what was meant by "low skilled" is that no formal education is required to be a dancer.
It looks like a typical thesis type article. Most articles on stripping, no matter how liberal the author, are not focused on the showing any advantages of stripping versus a degreed girl working in the corporate world.
Many people with high degrees view life success as climing as high up the career ladder as possible, compared to being an entrepreneur and working for yourself and letting your money work for you.