Are strippers smart?
skibum609
Massachusetts
Like any other group of people some are and some aren't. Last night I had a mind blowing experience (conversation) with an under 20 dancer. We were discussing how the rise of technology has created a surveillance state, which is in and of itself unusual, when I remarked that "a book written in 1948 foresaw the whole thing." She responded: "Eric Arthur Blair was amazing". I was stunned. Not because she was aware of the book 1984 and what it was about, but because of instead of her mentioning George Orwell by his pen name, she referred to him by his given name. One of the rare occasions where lap dances where a billion times better than extras and not just because she was a perfect spinner.
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I feel like dancers are the female equivalent of males who are gifted at sales, but can’t seem to buckle down and make the short term sacrifice in pay and freedom, required to move up and gain real power and stability. I don’t know if it’s out of arrogance, lack of confidence, or a lack of faith in the system.
Putting classic IQ aside: many strippers have far above average street smarts (tragically), and many have just amazing sales skills and sales intuition. Some of the strippers I've gotten to know are geniuses (at least to me) at selling and manipulating people in all areas of their lives. Most strippers have excruciatingly low emotional IQ (except where emotional IQ intersects with manipulating men in sales situations).
That’s typical of everyone not just strippers. Like the moron at the bar that’s a super expert on the NFL, but can’t even name the 3 beaches of government.
In my view - the most important part is the insight - and the intelligence is secondary. Having the insight to know how customers will react is very important. I guess insight and intellect can be grouped together.
Guys aren’t very difficult to manipulate. We basically live in the moment. Capitalizing on our simplicity is something dancers do quite well. We look at this as brilliant mind reading - but it’s basic math.
I agree - certain strippers are very intelligent. Many are well read, and some have great minds.
I think the StripperWeb version is pretty much correct: guys who inhabit strip clubs are about as sexist and boorish as they come (i.e, girls were placed on this earth to suck your dick). If you want a pretty Ivy League grad these days, you can go online and find one. So if you’re addicted to strip clubs, you’re probably not looking for someone who’s on a traditional trajectory toward success.
Who are you and what have you done with skibum609?
At the same time, if I compare the average stripper to the masses at the grocery store, the gym, the gas station, or god forbid someplace like Walmart strippers as a whole come out as remarkably intelligent. I don't know if its just that the idiots really stand out at those places, if I'm less tolerant of stupidity in those situations, or if really average intelligence is that low.
I'm just trying to generalize here. I've met strippers who are far and away more intelligent than some of the most successful people I work with & there are successful people at work who are, outside of their one specialty, fucking morons. I also tend to think the more intelligent strippers don't do it for long. Leaving me to get to know the dumber ones who do.
By handling yourself with poise and dealing with issues with knowledge and wisdom - your kids will see far more than you might think they see.
Very few come across as erudite but I’m sure some are. Most strippers who don’t get eaten alive are very street smart. But many strippers make bad decision after bad decision.
Our perception of what strippers are like is going to carry a lot of our own preconceived notions. If I go to a club and the first stripper is dumb as a box of rocks, the second stripper is drunk and the rest are flyby “wanna dance”, it is going to seem to confirm what i already believe before i set foot in the club. None will have seemed very intelligent but there was no fair interaction by which to gauge that.
In my experience, strippers seem to be lacking in the intellectual and emotional. Their financial intelligence tends to be one way. They're good at making money, but not good at keeping it or letting their money work for them. That might be tied to their emotional intelligence. But no, strippers in general don't strike me as noticeably more intelligent that your average person, although strippers do have to grow up much quicker, at least the ones that make it. So yes, if i have to compare a stripper with your average "dumb" young girl, then yes, i would say they're considerably "smarter" or ahead of the curve if you will.
It's the above average intelligence girls that are most likely to be successful because they can profile their customers. They can figure out what to say and what to do to manipulate the customer into giving them what they want. They do this by maximizing the customer's enjoyment and thereby creating a win-win situation in which both sides are satisfied.
Unfortunately for us PLs these girls only stick around as long as they want too because they are smart enough to plan for theit future. That may mean stripping long enough to get through college, long enough to put aside $X, long enough to find a spouse or simply long enough to have fun while deciding what they want to do next.
Clever and Educated are mutually exclusive. When people have both they become smart in my book. Third and fourth factors include work ethic and discipline (or impulsiveness). Of those four things (clever, educated, work ethic, discipline) many dancers are weak in one or more. Plenty of smart girls are lazy or impulsive and stripping accomodates their lifestyle. Any weakness in cleverness or education limits their career options. But if a dancer has all four she must be killing it as one otherwise she would have a career with benefits and stability (a rare few in this catagory also do both). I am not implying there is something wrong with stripping, it just works well as easy money for different types of girls. Yea I have met plenty of intelligent girls who strip and it doesnt suprise me. BJ is a great example of smart, but she must be lazy :P
I actually do like meeting and having great conversation with smart strippers...I also enjoy fucking their brains out. Hopefully I end up leaving something left in there when we are done ;)
I see you guys using "emotional intellegence" to refer to the ability to resist short term fun. I would tend to just call that being disciplined. To me emotional intellegence is more about empathy.
Our Sunnyvale Hip Hugger was more set up for talking and I always told the bosses that their club attracted the smartest girls.
SJG
Most of the time women have their most serious limitations between their ears.
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SJG
Most are probably in the middle.
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