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    I bought this magazine last week when I wasn't feeling well, and have yet to go through it. I'm going to read the whole thing, going to write the letter and going to stomache the bile that rises in my throat every time I hear about poor little us, and how we need to be saved and how we need to find God and get ourselves together.

    HOW DARE YOU assume that because I dance that I am not a spiritual person, or assume that I need to be saved. How dare you attack my morality and faith based on my ocupation. That, by far, is the most absurd thing I have heard of.....

    The dedication required to be successful at this job exceeds ANY amount of dedication required to stand at a drive through window and ask people if they would like to Super Size that order. The skill outweighs the skill required to punch holes in paper all day long. And the self management that is required beats hands down any job that requires you to punch in and out, day after day, while you sit on your ass and wait for the time card to fill up. Not that these jobs are less of a job because of that, but they are certainly not more!

    THEY should be ashamed, for allowing such a biased and insulting article to be printed with their consent.

    Blah...gag.




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    Colleen, your letter was beautifull written and very level headed....I was a bit hot when I wrote mine... Oh well, first reactions being what they are..... Here's mine

    "No One Should Have To Be A Stripper"

    When I read this article I felt physcially ill. As a mother, a wife, a business owner and a very spiritual person, I was insulted and outraged by this article. Why? Because I am also a dancer. I'm appalled that you would even allow an article like this to be printed in your magazine, portraying every dancer as a drug dependant, soul-less, hopeless victim. And such a one sided story!!! Surely you are aware that hundereds, thousands of your readers are in the adult entertainment industry, and surely you realize you have offended each and every one.
    Do not pity me because I dance. Pity the poor girl who lives with an abusive husband, fine. Pity the person who works an entire day and night yet barely makes enough money to feed his or her family. Pity the person who is addicted to his work so much that he hasn't seen his children grow up.
    But DO NOT pity the woman who is assertive in her work, makes time for her family and provides a good life for her children.

    Be proud of me, I am a healthy woman, I take pride in my appearance, I instill that pride and self love to my child, I am loved and respected by my husband and family, I am a spiritual and moral person. I do not feel used, abused, mistreated, neglected and outcast. I do not do drugs. I am not abused. I have no self loathing.

    My suggestion to those of you in the editorial department, do more research, get all the facts, and think before you insult a large group of beautiful, proud and wonderful women!




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    Ladies these responses are fantastic and make me proud to be a dancer and proud to be a part of stripperweb. Lets hope they make a few people think.

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    I think all of us writing in responses would be awesome! I'm sure they underestimate the amount of women who strip...mostly because not too many people are very open about it. It's alienating quite a large group of females. Aren't there a million freakin other bad things going on in the world that need light shed on them, rather then women who are doing something both legal and financially rewarding?

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    ExoticEngineer, your letter is excellent

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    Thank you!!! I re-read it about twenty times, and kept thinking... "I know there's more to say..." I wasn't sure about it, It felt kind of angry...but then again, I am angry about it.

    IN FACT...my hubby is angry about it, he too is going to write a letter, from the voice of the husband of an exotic dancer. I wuv that guy.




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    Awesome husband, its great that they will get a male opinion too.
    I think that your letter is perfect as it is, expresses how upset the article makes you, all of us, without being over the top. I love that you call us assertive women, after all aren't these types of magazines all about unleashing the 'fun fearless females'? Yet they print something like this slamming a group of women who dare to be unconventional and in control of their lives. Hypocrites

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    Quote Originally Posted by ExoticEngineer View Post
    Colleen, your letter was beautifull written and very level headed....I was a bit hot when I wrote mine... Oh well, first reactions being what they are..... Here's mine

    "No One Should Have To Be A Stripper"

    When I read this article I felt physcially ill. As a mother, a wife, a business owner and a very spiritual person, I was insulted and outraged by this article. Why? Because I am also a dancer. I'm appalled that you would even allow an article like this to be printed in your magazine, portraying every dancer as a drug dependant, soul-less, hopeless victim. And such a one sided story!!! Surely you are aware that hundereds, thousands of your readers are in the adult entertainment industry, and surely you realize you have offended each and every one.
    Do not pity me because I dance. Pity the poor girl who lives with an abusive husband, fine. Pity the person who works an entire day and night yet barely makes enough money to feed his or her family. Pity the person who is addicted to his work so much that he hasn't seen his children grow up.
    But DO NOT pity the woman who is assertive in her work, makes time for her family and provides a good life for her children.

    Be proud of me, I am a healthy woman, I take pride in my appearance, I instill that pride and self love to my child, I am loved and respected by my husband and family, I am a spiritual and moral person. I do not feel used, abused, mistreated, neglected and outcast. I do not do drugs. I am not abused. I have no self loathing.

    My suggestion to those of you in the editorial department, do more research, get all the facts, and think before you insult a large group of beautiful, proud and wonderful women!
    Ditto! Colleen, I liked your letter too. I read the article last night. You have to be a strong woman to endure and flourish in this business, and the article made dancers out to be self-loathing women with no self esteem wallowing in self-pity & in the disgusting cesspool known as the strip club. Funny. I always thought of myself as a strong self-respecting woman who works at a job I like at a place where people have fun so that I have $$$ and time to spend with my child. And if someone disrespects me? I don't fucking take it. Sheesh.
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    What makes me laugh is Harmony started her charade by writing "Your Loved!" on postcards.

    1. We know that
    2. Love does not pay the bills.

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    "No One Should Have to Be a Stripper"? Well duh, no one does!

    Personally, I feel that No One Should Have to Be a Waitress. Maybe I should start proselytizing to every pretty waitress I see, so that they will know a better life as a stripper is just around the corner!

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    Excellent point.

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    I hate how a big part of her "getting out" was finding a husband, like she needs a man to support her.
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    Really! It's not our fault she got into the business because she couldn't differentiate what was good and bad for her life. Pfft, not my problem.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Andygirl View Post

    Every single one of us needs to write a letter to the editor about this article. Seriously, even if you can only write something short, we need to let them know that we disagree with this shit and that it's an insult to hardworking women everywhere.
    I did just that a few minutes ago and I hope they get swarmed with them. Its shitt enough that we have to fight for fair rights as a dancer. That most men and people outside the buisness look at us as trash and to have something like glamour magazing print something like that.

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    I wrote one too! I read this thread a few times over the last few days and I didn't think the article would make me as absolutely furious as it did. I dont HAVE to be a stripper, neither does anyone else, like this one-sided article claims. It bothers me so much that a magazine can tell you to be proud of your body and do what makes YOU happy and then write something like this.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jo Weldon View Post
    Excellent point.
    Agreed. What's with this 'white knight' syndrome, anyway? If you got yourself the fuck in, you can get yourself the fuck out.. if you WANT TO. But a lot of people they're 'saving' don't want to. Who needs a man to support them?

    Co-dependant people.


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    Anybody notice on the last pages of the magazine where they have the 12 hot new things you DONT have to do this year.. #6 is take up cardio pole dancing. maybe im just being super defensive right now haha.. but this article is just ridiculous!

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    Glamour is being ridiculous. Sure they're not affiliated with Tyra?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Darcy Foxx View Post
    haha i'm so going to buy a holy hottie cap or tshirt. just for the irony.
    I most-def. won't give away my hard-earned "sin" money to some bitch just so she can insult me!

    (Although they are kinda funny)

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    OKay, so I read this damn thing, oh I don't know how many times today, and one part that really stands out in my head is where this girl is telling her story (by the way, could this ENTIRE deal be anymore about her and any less about people in need? anyway) and she wakes up one day and suddenly realizes that she been wasting her life and kicks her drug abusing leech of a boyfriend out the door and finishes school (which she was about done with) and blah blah blah...K, sugar....You could have kicked his sorry ass to the curb any ole time you wanted! Why was being astripper holding you back?

    I read this crap, which I will later use to wipe my healthy, in shape, non drug effected hiney, and I can't help but think it is a story not about how stripping ruined a person's life, but how that person ruined her own life.
    Her blaming stripping is a cop-out to the extreme. No one forced this twit to hook up with a looser, no one forced this girl to shop lift and run with bad people, no one forced this girl to get high and to become bi=polar with violent tendancies....that my dear was all your doing, congrats by the way!

    It still amazes me that Glamour (gag) published this article without even seeing how much of a blatant pity party it was!

    It's fantastic that she got a raise, and married well, and it's equally fantastic that she is helping people (or trying) but the rest is total crap....

    There, done whining about it now......now I shall crawl back to my bed and nurse my depression by shooting up and waiting for my mean ole man to come home and whip me soundly for having a point of view. G'night.




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    Ok. So. I actually subscribe to the mag. Although I was palnning on just throwing the issue out after learning there was an article like this in there (see my first post...) now I have to go read it and send in a letter plus my subscription cancelation. F*** that magazine.

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    ARRRGH! While what I *wanted* to write to the editors of Glamour is that just because Ms. Dust is a loser who had a shitty upbringing, a loser of a boyfriend, and hung out with a bunch of other losers who happened to be strippers, here is what I actually wrote:

    To Whom It May Concern:

    As a long-time reader of your magazine, I would like to take the opportunity to express my disgust with your article “No One Should Have to be a Stripper.” While the work that Ms. Dust does is certainly commendable, her views on the adult industry and those of us who work in it are incredibly biased and insulting to those of us, who unlike Ms. Dust, were not abused, molested or otherwise neglected as children. We are not all drug-addled, we do not all have self-esteem issues, we are not all single mothers, we are not all supporting boyfriends who do not work, and I personally do not enjoy being stuffed into a little box and labeled as such. I am a married mother of a wonderful little boy, I am finishing a degree in Linguistics with a 3.86 GPA, I am a home owner, I am an internationally ranked martial artist, and believe it or not, I live a very normal life.

    While I believe the intent of your article was to point out the atrocities that we, as dancers, supposedly suffer from day after day, did you ever stop to think how many women may only be seeing things like, “Since each song was three and a half minutes, she could, with generous tips, make $500 to $1,000 a night if she worked nonstop, with only bathroom breaks” and “At the end of my dance I asked someone to bring me a broom; I swept it all into a garbage bag and left.” She’d snagged $800 in singles—all from that one man.”? Sounds rather appealing, don’t you think?

    It is articles like this that perpetuate stereotypes about dancers. The article was based on one woman’s experience and “research” (and I use this term loosely), but I guarantee that you could find a thousand other women whose experiences are far different from that of Ms. Dust. I will look forward to reading an article in your magazine about strong, confident, well-adjusted women who also happen to be dancers, so that your readers will realize there are two sides to every coin.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Jo Weldon View Post
    Excellent point.

    now Jo you need to write and add your link.

    to the rest of you ladies nice letters. sadly i doubt they will be published

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    Quote Originally Posted by carmen124 View Post
    augh.. i just read the first page. "some girls will cry because they are getting a gift." (a brochure and lipgloss.) WTF ..


    hahahahahaha
    yeah that was ridiculous.. she made it seem as if we're in some kind of 3rd world country and are forced to work this horrible job... honestly, if a female custy came in and gave me a brochure and lip gloss i'd either 1. kick her out cuz i'd think she was trying to poisen me with tainted lipgloss, or 2. take it graciously and throw it away later...

    but yeah, she made us look like the stripper stereotypes that everyone thinks. On drugs or outta rehab. Getting fondled everyday..all having crackhead mothers, whatever else. But like someone said earlier, her life didn't seem to be going so well even before she started to dance, so...
    If there's an email address you guys have so we can give some feedback, please post

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    does anyone else find it annoying you are supposed to provide your adress and phone number to send a letter to the editor? ps this article really sucks, I was going to renew my subscription to glamour but now I'm not. Perhaps someone could send them a link to this thread so they can see they really are losing our businness. I also stopped reading cosmo after they wrote something negative about strippers. (cosmo sucks anyways though.) For anyone who used to enjoy glamour I've found marie claire to be on the same level, I think I will renew with them instead.

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