--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "sparaig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Cliff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Yes, I've known a number of women who either had been or were > > then currently strippers. > > > > I'm curious - you seemed to have been saying that my (or anyone > > else's) opinion could not possibly have any value if I didn't > > know any > > strippers. Are you now going to take my statement that I do as > > proof that my opinion has value, or will you now display this as > > "proof" of how (and all those like me, of course) horrible I am > > to women and how much I dislike them? > > WEre they your friends, or were you sleeping with them?
This warrants revisiting. One, sparaig seems to think that there of necessity has to be a difference. That's pretty sad in itself. Two, I think that anyone who has read his description of the strippers he's talked to know that they would *not* consider him to be a friend. He looks down upon them too much. FYI, the women I talked to at the strip club in Detroit *were* my friends. They knew that I never sat at the edge of the stage and stuffed dollar bills in their G-strings. They knew that I wasn't interested in lap dances. I was interested in *them*. I took advantage of the club's free limo service and sat at their bar for a while before each flight home. While sitting there, I wrote stories. Some of them were about the women I met; when they were, I gave them a copy. I was sorta like their pet, their artist- in-residence, like Toulouse-Lautrec was in Paris or Hokusai was in Kyoto. I was there because I liked the bar (it was really high-tech and had the nicety of a digital readout above the bar of all the departing flights, so that you could keep track of when you had to leave for the actual airport). And I liked the company. The women related to me because I treated them like women, not strippers. We laughed togther and had fun and talked like any two other human beings would laugh and talk. Maybe if you tried a little of this with your stripper "friends" instead of seeing in them only what your hangups have programmed you to see, they might actually become your friends, too. ------------------------ 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/
