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    Did you guys see the article in April's Glamour magazine called "The Stripper Recants".... my GAWD... its terrible! She's basically trying to convince everyone that reads Glamour that we were sexually abused by saying that almost every conversation she's had with a dancer included a story of an "unhappy home or abuse". She says a strip club is basically holding a "sexual survivors meeting nightly"... This article is unbelievable. "Stripping was about being someone else's fantasy, so any hope of living my life to its fullest potential was lost"... C'MON GLAMOUR!!! No wait, this line takes the cake "No amount of money is worth what you lose by stripping..." and "Stripping filled me with a coldness that has taken seven years to begin to thaw". So now even more non stripping women think even lower of us. Fantastic.

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    What else would you expect from a magazine like that! It's "glamour", which means "hypocrisy" because it's a real cutthroat, backstabbing world. Oh, and many if not most glamour models are really loose individuals, but it's like politicians, there's a presumption that they're "honorable" "decent", etc. (with exceptions, of course). I rest my case.



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    Yes i bought the mag. I actually buy alot, cosmo. etc.
    She missed one very important message in the article..That some women want to make great money and fast! That was my drive. Abused....HA. I could not have had a better child hood! They have nothing to say about us, nothing, except what they "have" to make up. People from all walks of life have been abused as children. Oh she forgot that one too...

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    I thawed out when I realized I could pay my private college total tuition cash without asking my parents or my boy for a penny, or was it when I realized I could pay my rent a couple months in advance or actually be able to move outta my mommys house as a youngie, or when I am the only one, other than the trust fund brats, not in line at the bookstore bitching cuz I dropped $500 or $600 for bout seven books for a semester. I enjoy my job, yes some nites are better than others but if I really did not like it I would quit. I like only working a few weekends every couple of months and being able to spend the rest of my time studying.
    I feel bad it took her seven years, if I ever get cold when I dance I tell management to fix the damn heat! I feel bad cuz she was too damn dumb, I would have never let myself be cold for that long..............Just b/c she personally was dancing and hating her job b/c of her own underlying personal problems doesn't mean we are all headcases.
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    Part of the reason magazines like that print that type of biased crap is because that type of publication is geared towards women that feel they're physically "inadequate" (not that I'm slamming anyone who reads such magazines). So what do they do? They take what is allegedly the cause of that inadequacy (in this case stripping) and trash it. I don't think they care so much about giving women accurate information, as they do about selling subscriptions.

    It also doesn't help that very few dancers stand up for themselves. I think some of you ladies ought to write Glamour a few "Letters to the Editor" and tell the other side of the story.

    I remember reading something in the newspaper, (either Ann Landers or Dear Abby) some years back from a dancer who defended her profession quite passionately from attacks that all dancers were drug addicts, abuse survivors, etc.
    Former SCJ now in rehab.

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    when you stop to think about it, housewives, politicians, hollywood, police, bible thumpers, and virtually everybody except dancers themselves have a vested interest in continuing the "popular" stereotype that dancers are whoresl, thieves and drug addicts. This way the females can explain their relative lack of "popularity" with guys on the moral basis of dancers enticing guys with "sin", and guys can explain their involvement with dancers and dance clubs on exactly the same basis, that they were "enticed" by these evil girls!

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    Maybe Glamour is right.... you know, cuz Glamour magazine features fashion models, and everyone knows that all FASHION models are clean, down-to-earth, sincere, humble, girl-next-door types who would never hurt a fly to get ahead in their industry. And they are so wicked smart, smarter than most people you'll ever meet. I mean, they appear in Glamour magazine, after all.

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    Maybe we should all email a letter to the editor/writer with the simple response:

    www.stripperweb.com

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    I hate to think like this, but the more women who are afraid of stripping, the less overcrowding and competition we have in the clubs.



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    Lol....Lena never would of thought about that one.
    And i don't think Glamour is going to give a rats ass about what we say. The mag. is pretty dry. I only look at fashion.
    Now Jane magazine is cool with strippers, as is Tongue, Cosmo had a few good articles before. Other than that it's Stun, Stuff, Maxim etc. Mens mags.

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    ..seriously, though, that's a good point, Lena. Business is slow as it is- we don't need overcrowding! lol

    I'll have to pick up the mag to read the article, but the sound of it's content and bias doesn't surprise me. It's like when a customer asks "Why on earth are you doing this"? As if the job is reserved only for drug-addicted victims of sexual and/or mental abuse. And I'd like to find out what the writer means by "...what you lose from stripping"
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    Wow... um...

    People's mindset re: strippers often baffles me. I remember this guy coming in and after chatting with me for a second asks me "So, what'd your Daddy do to you? It must've been something awful for you to end up stripping." Wha...what??? (This especially got me because me and Dad have an awesome relationship!)

    I like this one :

    "Maybe we should all email a letter to the editor/writer with the simple response:
    www.stripperweb.com "

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    Maybe Glamour is right.... you know, cuz Glamour magazine features fashion models, and everyone knows that all FASHION models are clean, down-to-earth, sincere, humble, girl-next-door types who would never hurt a fly to get ahead in their industry. And they are so wicked smart, smarter than most people you'll ever meet. I mean, they appear in Glamour magazine, after all.
    They also apparently never weigh more than 110 pounds, or have a waist measurement over 23 inches.
    Former SCJ now in rehab.

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    You know they just want everyone to be the same. 5'10' and 110 and blonde. While glamour is dissing our profession by simply stating we are from abused unhappy childhoods, there is actually two magazines that promoted it. Complete Woman and Womans own. They are little known magazines but perfect. They did include some of the cons, i.e. drama and broken bones, but mostly it was telling other women not to be scared of the strippers in their town and to try it out for themselves. There are many people who think "we lose things" like my ex-bf. She said that I was ruining the woman species. WE are not friends any more. Most of them I find to be jealous and well very insecure on their part. Well talk to you guys later.
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    Is this in this months' issue? I am all for the letter writing, email or otherwise. Perhaps if they get enough response,,,just maybe, they will be so impressed at strippers' use of the english language, a pen, and her ability to get a letter mailed amid all her drug use and crying about the past, that they will print a couple of them in the following month's issue...who knows?
    I hope many of you, like myself, plan to write about this. Imagine the response if this was another profession?! Yeah, exactly. Shouldn't be any different.

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    If any letter is written, it would be great (and appreciated by me) if you mentioned this site as a way for them to hear from strippers who are intelligent, happy, and successfully.

    We all imagine ourselves the agents of our destiny, capable of determining our own fate. But have we truly any choice in when we rise, or when we fall, or does a force larger than ourselves bid us our direction. Is it evolution that takes us by the hand, does Science point our way, or is it God who intervenes keeping us safe.

    So much struggle for meaning, for purpose. And in the end, we find it only in each other. Our shared experience of the fantastic. And the mundane. The simple human need to find a kindred, to connect. And to know in our hearts... that we are not alone.
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    It seem sthat many people fail to understand that Glamour magazine and it's ilk do NOT wish for us to all be 5'10", 110 lbs, and blonde.

    What the want is for all of us to THINK we should be 5'10", 110 lbs, and blonde. By extension, they want us to think that buying all the commercialized crap they advertise (most of which is worthless, might I add) will MAKE us 5'10", 110 lbs, and blonde.

    Cellulite removal creams, wrinkle erasing serums, lip fattening pencils, hair growing shampoos... my ass. Take it from someone who has experienced her share of American-media-induced body image insecurities...

    (One of the things I like about Canada is that I apparently wear a smaller size in EVERYTHING here - without losing a single pound... )

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    well i subscribe to glamour and havent read the articule yet. as for size and such i find them one of the few that celabrates women of all sizes. i tried writing a letter to them about their ghb articule. i get sooo tired of all media saying that ghb is odorless and tasteless which is NOT THE CASE. im sure in a drink it would be LESS tasteless but it still has a strong taste and odor. needless to say it wasnt printed. i cant believe they wont give a real life experiance over the popular media fed info
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    Allure magazine was recently at scores doing an article on some of the girls. It seems like they were mostly into girly things like their makeup preferences and workout routines. I guess it will be out in a few months. Lets hope it is a more positive portrayal or at least not a totally judgemental one.

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    You know, Velvet, I have that issue as well. When I read the GHB article, I remember thinking "I thought that stuff was supposed to be somewhat rank smelling!"

    Knew a girl at BSU in Idaho who'd ended up with a drink spiked with it while she was hanging out at a bar one night. She said all she could remember about it at all was that her drink tasted a little bit funny, but that she's already drank so much that she just kind of dismissed it. The next day she woke up in some guy's dorm room.

    As for the portrayals of women in magazines, I ask you this:
    Whatever happend to the old "Sassy" magazine, back before it was bought by the same people who created "Teen", and Jane Pratt decided to start a vanity project? Though it may have been focused on teenagers, that was a magazine that was essentially image-positive for all females!


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    has the writer ever been in stripping?

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    Oh, McCain, I adored Sassy. One of the editors from there is a friend of my bf's, and basically, it just wasn't selling enough or attracting enough advertising for the parent company, and when it changed hands, all of the great staff scattered. Jane is highly preferable to the other women's mags, but you know what? I wish we had our own Esquire or GQ, both of which are actual magazines and feature better female writers than the girly mags.

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    I just read part 2 about the article....Was there a part 2 or was i reading another mag?
    Anyway...she nailed strippers hard there. Being one herself, glamour did NOT like the article due to "hate" mail. I somehow feel, since she is now out of stripping, it is EASY to talk bad about the biz.
    And Glamour may have paid a front to clear the "name".
    Just my take on the article. I really don't believe she feels this way. Sooo long after the article pops out!
    She wants recognition......Again. (My opinion).

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    You know, Collette, I will have to agree that in general "Jane" is a far better magazine than most, in terms of being accepting of women. At the same time, though, you are right about the female writers for men's magazines. Hence the reason why one of my favorite mags is MAXIM, sexist and insecurity-promoting as it may be. MAXIM also has better jokes, photographs, and gadget-doodads.

    Maybe we should all get together and start an indie-zine for strippers?

    BTW, I'm just really bitter about the whole "Sassy" changeover thing. It happened right in the middle of the subscription my grandmother gave me.... One issue, all was great. A few months later, I got a late issue that looked like Seventeen on Prozac, with a note inside about the magazine having been taken over. Massive bummer.

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    Ohhh, i just have read this article... jeez, i thought her life is kind of pathetic, but it doesn't mean all the girls who strip are abused or anything. Things she wrote made me a little angry. The fact that she was working a double shift can even hurt your mind. There is no rest at all. I think this woman was kind of obsessed with a wrong attitude. The reason she started stripping is abuse, and it turned into a life style. This is bad expirience, which any girl should keep distance from. Don't take this JOB too close to your mind, don't get into it, because everything you earn is going to pay off what you have lost, what a sence of it then? No future?So, make it good for yourself, enjoy yorself while you are still young, and create a right attitude, save, be strong minded person FIRST!
    That is basically a very good article, i have learned a lot from it.
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