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    So I was in my Brit Lit class today, and we were talking about "The Importance of Being Earnest". There's a line that goes...

    "My dear Algy, you talk exactly as if you were a dentist. It is very vulgar to talk like a dentist when one isn't a dentist. It produces a false impression."

    The teacher was trying to explain what the line meant in the context. She asks, "Well, what's a profession that is vulgar these days?" and three (yes, three) girls replied in unison "stripper". Then they go off! One girl talks about how anyone can have sex with them in private rooms for $100, and another says they're all addicted to drugs, and another agrees, adding that we all are ugly and men throw money at us because we're whores. All three girls are not much to look at, either, and they aren't very smart. One is actually always stoned in class. How did we go from Oscar Wilde to this?!

    WOW! I thought it was so funny. Then the teacher (who is a cougar, I know it) goes "Yea, that would be like me saying to you 'Alright students, I'm working this weekend at The Gold Club, come see me and be sure to bring lots of singles!' "

    I was laughing so hard on the inside. Every one of these girls is so nice to me in class, and tells me how smart I am because I always ace my papers, and always ask to borrow my notes. No one knows about my job at school, NO ONE, and I intend to keep it that way. It's funny getting a glimpse of what people think of our occupation when they think we aren't around. I felt like a spy!

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    Thats crazy how people think I have a friends who told me that when you go into VIP you have to do whatever the customer says because they paid for your time. And the only way strippers actually make money is not by dancing but by suck and fucking.

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    Damn...I'm impressed that you were able to keep your mouth shut. I think that would've been just enough to set me off, and I'm a pretty chilled out person.

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    ^ it was more funny to me than anything. I didn't want to out myself.

    In retrospect, I actually wish I kind of egged them on by agreeing to see what they said.

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    i would have acted incredulous.

    "really?!? no way!!! tell me more!!!"

    and then

    "how do you guys know this? have you ever been in a strip club? where is this information from?"
    "If she wants to dance and drink all night, well there's no one that can stop her. She's going til the house lights come up or her stomach spills onto the floor. This night is gonna end when we're damn well ready for it to be over, worked all week long, and now the music is playing on our time. Yeah we do what we do to get by, and then we need a release!" - Against Me!, "Thrash Unreal"

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    I wonder how they would've reacted if you said "so that's what you guys think of me huh".
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    ^ yeah, I wonder... but it would not be worth outing myself! I think people believe we are strippers 24/7 and the job is a natural extension of our personalities. No one would imagine I'm pretty prudish and studious when I'm not at work.

    I was going to be like "My sister is a stripper!" (true) and see what they said, but it wasn't worth it either.

    People at my last school knew about my job, NEVER AGAIN!

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    I would have laughed my arse off and call them retarded. And then shrug my shoulders. Meh, I wasn't at school to make friends.

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    Wow, that would have made me so mad, good for you for keeping your mouth shut!!!
    Hahah...... I guess it's kind of a good thing they think it's disgusting so they won't all go try it.
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    WTF. I'm aghast at the teacher from a literary standpoint. Given the question she asked, I don't think she understood what was written! That line has nothing to do with vulgar professions. Nada, zip, zilch. It's saying it's vulgar to use the language of a profession you're not a part of. (Which your classmates then proceeded to prove unknowingly!) And, in context, it wasn't even a serious statement. It was said as a play on words in reaction to the way Algy phrased his demand for Jack to come out with his secret. Algy saying to Jack, "Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out at once," and Jack reacting as if Algy was speaking of a tooth.

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    I would've been tempted to say something, just to sit back and laugh some more. If it got me in trouble I'd say I was just being a smartass and NOOO, of course I'm not a strippah pollutin yer institution!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Ruby Ruckus View Post
    i would have acted incredulous.

    "really?!? no way!!! tell me more!!!"

    and then

    "how do you guys know this? have you ever been in a strip club? where is this information from?"
    Yeah, I would have gone this route, just because I have a hard time letting shit like this slide.

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    I wonder how they would've reacted if you said "so that's what you guys think of me huh".
    Since I have no qualms about outing myself, I probably would have done this. Oh, just THINK of the delicious reactions!

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    ^ yeah, I wonder... but it would not be worth outing myself! I think people believe we are strippers 24/7 and the job is a natural extension of our personalities. No one would imagine I'm pretty prudish and studious when I'm not at work.

    I was going to be like "My sister is a stripper!" (true) and see what they said, but it wasn't worth it either.

    People at my last school knew about my job, NEVER AGAIN!
    Why, what happened? What are you studying (or is it irrelevant?)

    I like your point about the job being an extension of our personalities. If only people knew...

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    ^ my first college was a private liberal arts school, and when people found out what I did, I was basically an outcast. The only friends I had were theaters kids, who I loved.

    I'm older now, and being honest about my occupation is just not worth the stress with these people who only know a little part of me. I would rather focus solely on what I need to be learning.

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    sortof on and off topic, but about people finding out you're a stripper:

    once i met a boy at a concert that was friends with some people i knew. we hung out, had a great time, i slept over (didn't fuck him, we just made out) etc etc. i made the decision not to tell him what i did because i wasn't ready to tell him yet.

    the next night, we had another date, went to a party, and ended up back at my place. drunk, he said "soooooooooooooooooo, i found out that you're a stripper. how come you didn't give me a lapdance last night miss stripper?"

    excuse me? i made out with you and slept in your bed half naked. that's a hell of a lot better than a stupid lapdance if you ask me. this statement, along with others made that evening proved to be that he was a chauvinistic, know-it-all dumbass.

    so then i made him take me out to dinner, and never talked to him again.
    "If she wants to dance and drink all night, well there's no one that can stop her. She's going til the house lights come up or her stomach spills onto the floor. This night is gonna end when we're damn well ready for it to be over, worked all week long, and now the music is playing on our time. Yeah we do what we do to get by, and then we need a release!" - Against Me!, "Thrash Unreal"

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    I had a moment like that once. I was in a class and this guy started to go off about how stripping isn't a real job and we're all whores who are going nowhere in life, blah blah blah. Now I'm sitting there at 8am after being at work all night so I got mad and blurted out, "That's not true. I'm a stripper..." and started on my stripper defense.

    I totally regretted it later b/c I was going to the school that my mother works at and my professor was actually interned for my mother before teaching there.

    Kudos to you for being able to laugh it off within. Next time, I'm so keeping my mouth shut.

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    Quote Originally Posted by evan_essence View Post
    WTF. I'm aghast at the teacher from a literary standpoint. Given the question she asked, I don't think she understood what was written! That line has nothing to do with vulgar professions. Nada, zip, zilch. It's saying it's vulgar to use the language of a profession you're not a part of. (Which your classmates then proceeded to prove unknowingly!) And, in context, it wasn't even a serious statement. It was said as a play on words in reaction to the way Algy phrased his demand for Jack to come out with his secret. Algy saying to Jack, "Come, old boy, you had much better have the thing out at once," and Jack reacting as if Algy was speaking of a tooth.

    -Ev
    ^seconded. Also, the play on words extends to the term 'false impression' - an impression being something a dentist takes for fittings, clearly demonstrating Wilde's delightfully clever use of language. Furthermore, vulgarity is something of a recurring theme for Wilde, if the tutor really wanted to explore the concept then she should have brought out some quotations from his other works and had you examine in more depth the concept of vulgarity in 19th century British society and how Wilde related to the notion. It was something levelled at Wilde himself for his relationship with Alfred Douglas.

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    But on the subject of ignorant comments i've had it at work too - hearing grown men and women giggling and saying derogatory things about a subject they clearly know nothing about. In my current role i did have to put a stop to it by saying "actually i've handled a lapdancing club as a client and found the manager and staff to be polite, enthusiastic, intelligent and professional - they certainly made more money than me!" - which pretty much shut everyone up.

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    Oh boy I'm also amazed you kept your mouth shut. I almost wish you said something so I could hear what the response would be... I love moments like that when I can prove people wrong just for the shock factor, but that is really interesting the stereotype.

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    I'm glad you too. It never wins to argue with the ignorant and close-minded and it sounds like most of you know this from experience. That's the main reason why I keep dancing a secret for the most part. Some people are so extreme in their views against dancing and these are the same people who have never been to a stripclub. WTF, right? I'm over it, people are a-holes.

    I totally would have played devils advocate and poked holes in their argument in a rational, non-emotional, authoritative tone. Make them look like the ass that they are in an intelligent, combative sort of way. They would have retracted their dogma about dancers because stigmatizing a group over the actions of one or two is clearly an error in judgment. Duh!

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    LOL, there are three guys that I sit near at my regular job, and I always hear them talking about strip clubs/strippers. I haven't heard them say anything negative about it yet, but I always kind of laugh inside when I hear them talking about it.

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    Thats crazy how people think I have a friends who told me that when you go into VIP you have to do whatever the customer says because they paid for your time.
    Doesn't the same thing apply to waitresses or plumbers? You pay them for their time also.
    Yeah if you wanted to out yourself the perfect time would be when one of those dumb girls asks to borrow your notes. "You don't want to borrow the notes of a stupid, drug addicted stripper."

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    Oh I would have never been able to keep my mouth shut EVER, at all. But then I never have cared much for company beyond my husband and dogs. I've always been there with my "Sword of Knowledge" to chop down the "Tree of Ignorance" if you will.

    It helped that I had the whole 4.0 thing going on, and everybody knew it cause I would fuck up the curve > Well, what else am I going to do on a slow note but review my biology homework? Honestly.

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    I'm so glad theres girls out there who still think like this, and wish MORE would. More $$$ for us!

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    I had a situation like that too... I just listened through it and tried to "squeeze" more opinions from others around... it was funny more than anything.. I already know what narrow minded people think of us!

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    A similar situation came up in one of my classes. It was a single female student going on a rant about how it is okay to treat strippers like shit because they aren't like real human beings. She went on to say that she enjoys teasing strippers with ones but never actually tips the girls (she must not have ever been to a local club, because the girls around here would have kicked her ass!).

    I sat quietly for a few minutes then said, "you know, many a student here has paid for her schooling by stripping. As a matter of fact, there may be a stripper sitting in this class right now, for all you know."

    She said "I doubt it." while looking around the room nervously. She shut up after that. That was very satisfying to see her squirm. LOL! She was talking out her ass, and everyone knew it.


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    ^ OMG! That's the perfect comeback! I wish I had thought of that.

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