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    The type of girl you just described...... let me tell you about those girls. They are at the club for one of a few reasons.

    a. They are checking it out thinking about auditioning.
    b. They secretly wish they had the balls to do what we do, but don't and they know it. So the best they can do is go there and try to show out that they are 'better' than us because they have respect for themselves and don't need to shake their ass for money, when in fact it is that they don't have enough confidence to feel comfortable enough in their own skin to do what we do
    c. They're bitches

    Oh, C always applies. Always.

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    Quote Originally Posted by lokikola View Post
    The type of girl you just described...... let me tell you about those girls. They are at the club for one of a few reasons.

    a. They are checking it out thinking about auditioning.
    b. They secretly wish they had the balls to do what we do, but don't and they know it. So the best they can do is go there and try to show out that they are 'better' than us because they have respect for themselves and don't need to shake their ass for money, when in fact it is that they don't have enough confidence to feel comfortable enough in their own skin to do what we do
    c. They're bitches

    Oh, C always applies. Always.
    I LOVE IT!!! Please tell me why this chick has a problem with me doing it, when the manager told me two of her friends wanted to audition???!!! She knew they were to.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JessicaCM View Post
    I LOVE IT!!! Please tell me why this chick has a problem with me doing it, when the manager told me two of her friends wanted to audition???!!! She knew they were to.
    She or her friends were planning to work there, but when they recognized someone from their dorm, they realized that they were not as "original" and "cool" as they thought, and they're upset that you "stole their thunder" by becoming a stripper first.

    Or maybe they already auditioned and didn't make it and are jealous.

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    @Aurora It's definitely jealousy. They didn't audition yet, they have to set up one. If anything, they will have to audition on Wednesday at the earliest. Oh well, I just need to keep my mind on my $ and not haters. While they are talking, I am banking.

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    Quote Originally Posted by JessicaCM View Post
    I'm doing it because I have to pay for my school once financial aid is through, to get away from an abusive family member, and I can no longer stay at my parents home next summer...not to sleep with men or go on shopping sprees. I've put in a shitload of applications elsewhere, and this job was the less difficult to get hired at. I was like wtf.
    One of the first things to keep in mind is that you don't want to perpetuate those insulting stereotypes, either. I don't know too many strippers who do it to 'sleep with men or go on shopping sprees'. If you have to make excuses or claim to be an exception, it means you're not proud of what you do. That's the kind of thinking that gives power to behavior like those classmates of yours.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FeministStripper View Post
    One of the first things to keep in mind is that you don't want to perpetuate those insulting stereotypes, either. I don't know too many strippers who do it to 'sleep with men or go on shopping sprees'. If you have to make excuses or claim to be an exception, it means you're not proud of what you do. That's the kind of thinking that gives power to behavior like those classmates of yours.
    I agree. I like my job...and shouldn't have to explain myself to anyone.

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    In the interest of full disclosure, I must admit that during my time in the industry I did, in fact, sleep with some men and go on a few shopping sprees. That just wasn't my raison d'etre.
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    In retrospect, this sounds like I'm passing judgment on sleeping with men and shopping. The fact is that women shouldn't have to answer as to WHY they choose this or any profession. That lends credence to the idea that equality is based on merit, something to be earned. If you're young and sexy, why not spend a few years Shopping and Fucking? Life is short, but youth is shorter. Ride the wheels off, I say.

    The best thing you can do about these girls (it's not like you're missing out on their friendship ) is to flourish at your new profession without apology, defy the stereotypes and live well. In the epic scheme of your life they and their ilk matter not at all.
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    Thanks!!!!!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Athenathefabulous View Post
    "I still can't believe that this girl cannot write a proper sentence in English. To think that her parents are paying all this money to send her to college. I will NEVER, yes NEVER with an 'ER', look at her the same way again."

    Hahahaha....my thoughts EXACTLY!!!
    Okay life, you wanna test me some more? BRING IT ON 'cause i can take whatever ya got coming!!!!

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    You've just got to ignore it.

    The one good thing about dancing is that you'll find out the people who are your real friends as they will love you anyway. Fuck the haters!
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    @Aussie Thanks!!! ;-)

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    Make your money. Either they have it where their family is paying or they're taking on an a**load of debt.

    Jealousy for sure. You start teaching a "strip-hop" class at school and who wouldn't sign up? It's part of mainstream culture now.

    Haters. That's all they are.
    Smoke good, eat good. Drink and f*** good. Comin' to the club, stuntin' how you should. My s*** on fire I don't need no gasolina. I'm comin through the block with the new two seater. Cash rules everything around me -- C.R.E.A.M. -- get the money! Dollar dollar bill, y'all!!! FREEZE!!! You know who it is!!! It's me *****es!!! Showtime!!! -Swizz Beats

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    I actually think there is more going on here than just the dancing. I briefly lived in a dorm in college and dealt with bitches like this. My roommate and dormmates (meaning lived on the same floor) for the most part hated me. I never understood why and later realized it was because I was attractive and already working as a model (dancing came a few months later)while they were all short, fat and ugly. I ended up having to transfer out of the dorm (and ended up transferring schools) because of them and the day I left the bitches across the hall had on their door they were happy I was leaving. That whole semester left me with a poor taste in my mouth about ever living with women in that situation. I did end up having another roommate but she was a stripper too and it worked much better.

    The fact is as long as you strip you will deal with situations like this. However, to be fair, even if you weren't, if you are attractive you will deal with bitches like this. I've been in non stripping situations and have had random women make comments about me. I wrote about one experience in a thread where I was shopping for clothes and some woman at another table called me a slut. I've learned to ignore these morons and be thankful I'm not a disgusting cretin like them.

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    @Kelly Thank you so much! Yeah normally (even before dancing) girls would look me over because of my body...the girl who lives in my building is really short to lmfao. Oh well. I'm making my $...people always say "there are other options" when talking about strippers...but HELLO the job market is fucked up so I'm doing what I gotta do. When it comes to tuition, bills, etc...NOBODY (friends, family, etc) is gonna protect my neck like me. Even though so many people wanna call us girls HOES...oh well even though I'm not at least I'm a PAID HOE. =)
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    ^ WELL paid whore

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    Quote Originally Posted by kaiarose View Post
    ^ WELL paid whore
    Lol...especially at the people who think all of us would sleep with anybody. No we just dance around seductively to pocket money.

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    ^ A lot of people either genuinely don't know the difference between a prostitute and a stripper, or they just don't care to differentiate because it defeats the purpose of classifying everyone in this industry as whores. My theory is that it all comes from jealousy.

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    @FireMaiden EXACTLY! That's my theory too. =)

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    Hey girl, this is tough, I went through an experience where my first year of college my roommates tried to make life hell for me for much of the same reasons as you. Before I danced I was doing deliveries after class and got so much hate even for bringing home 50-80$ a night. It's pathetic that some people would rather bitch and moan than be a go getter and do things themselves. My roommate started a fight in front of our RA (who was waaaaaaay too passive for her job, she started crying during this) and when I told roomie that she was just jealous that I had friends and a job she told me "yea, well I don't NEED to work". Lmao, isn't getting a job the reason to go to school??? Pretty much my roommies laid in bed eating, the one n my room played World Warcraft nonstop, and watching tv all day where as I had an active social life, my own car, and money. And for the record all my roommates were borderline obese due to their lifestyle choices and lonely. Save your money and move off campus with some more mature individuals when you can. Dorms are full of children fresh out of their parents with no responsibilities and nothing to occupy their time and imaginations. But def report this behavior, don't let them think they can intimidate you or push you around or make you upset. A lot of people will drop out by next year, too, remember. If you can, take extra classes over winter/summer break and online so you can get through the basics and take more classes with upperclassmen. It's such a different experience, and you sound mature and serious and like you'd fit right in.

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    @GummyBear Yeah I am a Junior actually in college. I think my last year I will move off campus to avoid juvenile behavior like that. I appreciate all of advice and your story!

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    My bad, congrats on making it so far! I go to a commuter school now, love being among adults.

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    That's great! =)

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    Quote Originally Posted by JessicaCM View Post
    ...people always say "there are other options" when talking about strippers...but HELLO the job market is fucked up so I'm doing what I gotta do.
    The question is, why should you choose those other options? The Judgy Judgersons would like to believe that women only choose sex work when they're too disadvantaged - or lazy - to do something else. Do they say that to people who work in cigarette factories? What about the people who make their living helping the insurance company they work for deny sick people's claims? People like that believe that standing naked in front of a crowd of men would be so humiliating that we'd only do it if we had to - or worse, if we're so f*cked up that we THINK we have to because we're such Poor Things that we just don't know better.

    The good thing about an artificially lowered expectation is that it's a truck-sized opening through which you can get right into the middle of their stupid stereotype and blow it up with well-wielded truth.

    My best friend got her degree, got out of the strip club and hired as a chemist - and then, after a year, came back because she missed dancing.

    Other options? Why would I choose drudgery over fun?

    I can't stress enough how important it is to familiarize yourself with sex-positivity as a women's issue. This goes so, so much deeper than it appears: this is about the choices that are available to all women and the 'proper' behavior that's required of us if we want to keep our false sense of equality. The thinking that requires you to choose 'other options' or lose your respectability - and with it your sociopolitical footing - runs deep, right through the middle of our culture.
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    FeministStripper, I love your posts.

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