Clubs Using a Scale to Weigh Dancers for Employment
rh48hr
Wakanda
Have you guys seen or heard about this at any clubs in your area? Had a dancer tell me she lost her job at another club because they told her she weighed too much as they weighed dancers on a scale in the club.
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I think it is dumb. Some people just have more muscle or more bone density. I've seen girls that are like 95 lbs that I would have guessed 115 or 120... then sometimes you see a 150 you woulda sworn is 130 or less.. lol!!
But yeah I've heard of some of the more popular upscale clubs being strict about weight.
They do let girls go for being overweight in my area. I have not heard of a scale being used. From what I have heard they will give the dancer some time to lose weight and if it does not happen their contract is not renewed
I mean really, a simple weight cut-off is non-brilliant. A little chubby with a pretty face = keep her on whereas the butterface should be let go for a more modest weight gain. Perhaps one day the next Einstein could derive the universal equation for “should be dancing”.
I’m just saying that I volunteer for the council of perverts! Is anybody else with me? ;)
Or maybe it will be the next Schrödinger that derives the right equation. That dude took his wife and girlfriend to the Nobel ceremony when he won.
Surely an aces “should she strip” equation would be straightforward for the next-generation Schrödinger! ;)
This makes sense to me, especially if you want the dancers to not let themselves go.
Also, the clubs look at her overall physique not just a dancer's weight.
But, I wonder if the above is so subjective, it opens clubs to lawsuits. Whereas an objective set of standards -- basically a chart with height on one axis, weight on the other, and a line drawn below which every dancer must stay -- is more defensible.
Really, no idea either way. Just trying to puzzle out why they'd use a scale (beyond just yet another way to psychologically terrorize the strippers) instead of just doing an ocular patdown and making a judgement from that.
If I hire contractors at my job I can use subjective criteria to determine who I bring on.
Seriously though, to each his own and I've known plenty of chubby chasers in my time.
By FTS standards, a 5' dancer had better weigh less than 97 lbs, and a 5'6" dancer had better weigh less than 118 lbs.
FYI, for a 5' dancer, BMI 19-23 range (proposed by FTS) parameters would be 97 - 118 lbs, while parameters for 5'6" dancer would be 118 - 142 lbs.
I suggest that Papi avoid any club that hires FTS as a dancer screener.
have i seen it before? yes
but in my estimation---i hardly ever see girls who seem too fat
but apparently this is a common reason a dancer will get axed
Unfortunately, I have also seen clubs where you'd think the hiring manager was a chubby-chaser. But to be fair, every guy has thier own standard and type of attraction to women. Some of this skews by culture, some by locale, some by shift (day vs night). But most of the clubs where I've seen dancers plumping up have a self-elimination process when more weight typically (bit not always) results in less earnings.
In California, most clubs are converting from contracted dancers to employees. So this gives the clubs more power to enforce BMI or height/weight proportional rules. But if those rules are ever challenged in court, the club(s) will need to prove it is a bona fide occupational requirement (i.e.: That overweight dancers cannot meet the necessary job requirements). There is precedent for this from the Airlines, where they used to require that stewardesses (this is before "flight attendants") had to stay under a certain weight. The airlines lost because the primary duty of the job was safety, not entertainment or providing "eye candy" to business travelers.
Does it? I would have thought this is one of the areas where employee protections favor the employee. Independent contractor? A little more latitude in hiring and firing. Employee? Best be careful about firing.
Just what I would have expected.