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comment by katakowsj
katakowsj  ·  3640 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Is Stripping A "Bad Thing"?

It's just a job that is basically pretty crappy. Maybe there are some better forms of stripping jobs and the pay may be good, but generally not a job to boast about. Like a trash collector. I don't know many folks that would aspire to trash collecting. For some though, that crappy job fits their situation.

I worked at Mickey D's in high school. I wasn't taking pride in emptying the fryer. It was a job I was not proud of. Plain and simple. It paid terribly too.





teamramonycajal  ·  3617 days ago  ·  link  ·  

This reminds me a lot of the concept of 'job ghettos' that my mother introduced to me a few days ago.

There are a lot of jobs usually considered either crappy or low-status by the population at large where the people in it are not a representative sample in some way or another - the administrative assistants in the College of Science, where I'm a student (and graduating in two weeks), are almost entirely female; construction is almost entirely male; the surgical techs at the hospital where my mother had her surgery were almost entirely non-white; and so on.

Stripping is a crappy, low-status job (as much as the 'sex workers citizen brigade' would like to deny it, they are always going to be a low-status, crappy job viewed with disdain, in part because you need no qualifications other than anywhere from good looks to a functioning set of genitals), and it's almost entirely female.