--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Peter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Strip clubs exploit women as sex objects. > > Yes and no. I've had several clients who were "exotic" > dancers and they absolutely hated the work,
Not arguing your experience, but its hard to extraoplate much from a "self-selective" sample of two. (I am not implying that you are extrapolating such. Some might) (Self-selective -- that is the dancers were not chosen from a random sampling process, but took actions -- went to see a shrink -- that by their actions indicates that they may be dancers that were having issues with thier jobs. Even if 30 girls came to you, such a group is not necessarily representative of the population of dancers.) > but loved > the money. Its hard to argue explotation, which Vaj has, when the money is so good. > What bothered them most was not their > nudity or physical contact with the men, but the > pretending to be attracted to and interested in the > men. Not unparallel to many jobs where one has to pretend to like and be interested in their customers. I am in awe of real-estate agents and the social face they have to wear, their need to be "on" 24/7 etc. Lots of other professions have similar "performance" roles. It is not exploitation in and of itself. Or co-workers / bosses. Getting along, subtley kissing up, living with intrigue, is at the core of white-collar corporate life. It can be "bothersome", draining, irritating. While many if not most jobs have a downside, people are generally free to weigh the postives and negatives of a job. White-collar employees and skilled tradesmen generally have free will to keep their job, in spite of the negatives, or to leave it and seek something new. Perhaps at lower pay and prestige. Still, such employees are not "exploited". > Also the relating of the men to them as sex > objects was very wearing. Woman everywhere, I imagine, can get weary of such. That does not make the case, in itself, that women are exploited because they are objectified by some men. Lots of people are objectified in some fashion. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Get fast access to your favorite Yahoo! Groups. Make Yahoo! your home page http://us.click.yahoo.com/dpRU5A/wUILAA/yQLSAA/JjtolB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
