Well, I wasn't talking about "bad" associations with strippers per se; more an extremely strong inappropriate association. Like you can have a bad lapdance and still enjoy the next one without analogizing it to the first in any particular way; I think it would be harder to enjoy a lapdance and not analogize it with your stripper daughter.
For the rest - interesting perspective. Like why doesn't the explicit or implicit knowledge he has that his daughter has sex have the same effect? I would suggest that there is a consumerist function at work there. Whereas sex is something that everyone (pretty much) has, the consumer aspect of sex is a little more specialized. Not to mention that we have, in this society, a strong tendency to associate people with their jobs.
Finally - I was engaging with Chris Rock's construction, not, like, my own. Don't get the wrong idea. And I'm pretty sure he was joking - being a comic and all. So I'm not wound up about it. I'm just a close reading addict. So I take it seriously enough to to examine but not seriously enough to get mad. Although - funny story. I was talking to The Roommate about this and she said "I don't think you'd feel much better about it if he was saying that women had failed as mothers because their daughters were dancing." And I said the same thing: "Well; I'm pretty sure he's joking. I am aware that Chris Rock is a comedian and makes jokes." Her response: "Okay - traditionally? That does not stop you from getting upset about things. So don't talk to me like I'm crazy."



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Glad I'm not the only person who has these sort of convos.

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