Some guy in my town I used to know (but stopped talking to alltogether because he wanted was too pushy about trying to get with me) found out that I work at a bikini bar & started spreading all these rumors about me to people who I am actually friends with & care about their opinion. The usual shit that I'm sure many of you have had to deal with: that I'm a "slut" (I've slept with three people), that I'm a "gold digger" (I pay for my own rent & college & am not even dating anyone; I also supported my ex for months when he didn't have a job), that I'm a "stripper" (okay, kind of, but I don't take my clothes off & I just do my hula hoop act; shit, I don't even mind being called a "stripper," but saying it just for shock value combined with other lies & not the full info. on my job is lame).
All of this because I rejected him.
So I run into the guy at a coffee shop across the street from campus where I'm working on my final essays. I probably look the furthest from a stereotypical stripper as possible: greasy hair, no makeup, glasses, a hoodie. I confronted him about all the rumours & he said he said all of those things because he thinks that working in a "titty bar" is gonna lead me nowhere & basically that because I'm dancing now I'm going to go nowhere in life, no exceptions. He thinks I need to be saved.
Of course I just laughed this off, because here I am, looking like a bum, writing a paper on the globalized economy that he wouldn't even understand.
But he said something which caught my attention and made me wonder if any of you have run into this before:
This guy kept on saying things like "See, you hang out in this coffee shop with the glass windows so you can be seen," (uhhhh, hope nobody saw me looking like this today LOL) & "That's why you always wear such bright colored clothes" (I enjoy cultivating personal style), & the topper: "If you didn't dance you would feel like nobody cared about you."
WOW. Dancing actually does quite the opposite for me, & I'm lucky to have good friends to lean on when I come home from work feeling like I have lost faith in humanity yet again.
So now, I ask you:
Do people assume you dance for the attention?
&
What is the most ludicrous stripper stereotype you have encountered?



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