Media portrayal of strippers
Lone_Wolf
Arizona
Does the media capture the true portrayal of strippers or the SC industry as a whole?
It seems that most the articles I read about strippers tend to greatly exagerate their income and, most, don't really touch on what a stripper has to do to make a living. It is like the people doing the story never frequent a SC and really have little idea of what goes on inside them.
Even when the news stories are slanted and try to degrade the profession, they almost end up glamorizing it instead by overstating the earning potential and understating what most top earners really do to make good cash.
The few strippers I've gotten to know don't earn near the amount of money I've seen quoted in most the articles I've read.
It seems that most the articles I read about strippers tend to greatly exagerate their income and, most, don't really touch on what a stripper has to do to make a living. It is like the people doing the story never frequent a SC and really have little idea of what goes on inside them.
Even when the news stories are slanted and try to degrade the profession, they almost end up glamorizing it instead by overstating the earning potential and understating what most top earners really do to make good cash.
The few strippers I've gotten to know don't earn near the amount of money I've seen quoted in most the articles I've read.
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NEVER.
The story can be on farm subsidies, the city council or strip clubs. Reporters rarely know anything and are just trying to tell a story and get noticed so they can move up the ladder of their profession.
The cost of the paper dates the song, but the sentiment's the same. And stripper stories are among the worst. They're mostly sensationalized moralizing tripe written to deliver eyeballs to advertisers.
Whenever there's a strip club in a TV show such as Law and Order: SUV, the writers potray the clubs as sleazy dives with perverted old men as customers and the dancers as lying, thieving, whores.
Now that's not even remotely close to the truth, is it?
Other clubs certainly live up to the reputation, if not more so. These are not in the middle of the bell curve either.
Then there are those with the mixed apples - some good, some bad - in the middle of the bell curve.
The US news media is kind of, well, biased. Some are known to be far right, some are known to be far left, some are known to be red, other's blue... heck, some are as grey as Anderson Cooper's hair.
I guess what I am saying, is if anyone does a story - it is anecdotal to the industry. Some clubs one never hears about or from. They are good clean clubs. Others are on the news every month or two. It is hard to use one club to describe all of them. It is like used car places - some are much better than others. That said, most news organizations don't try to play up the other clubs as bad as the one they are focusing on.
Some movies portray dancers outstandingly, like the wife of the character played by Will Smith (Vivica Fox) in "Independence Day" - definitely a tent pole movie. Some a little more fun, such as Demi Moore in "Striptease."
Anyhow, movies are full of strip club portrayals.
Bloggers - they can offer up opinion (and agenda), and boy do they. They enjoy stereotypical wide brush portrayals.
Probably the most realistic portrayal... at least at the end of the dancing career.