Gentrification Inside the Club and Out: How Stigma and Respectability Are Impact

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• Call.Me.Ishmael

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  5 years ago

  This doesn't surprise me at all.
• skibum609

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  5 years ago

  So if we don't invest in poor neighborhoods we are assholes and if we do invest in porr neighborhoods we are assholes. Gotcha. Strip clubs thrived when people had a lot of disposable income and those days are gone. Every industry changes; just look at Vegas. When I started going rooms were basically free because they wanted you to gamble so they could "skim" in the counting room. Then computers made that harder so Vegas became "famil friendly". Now Vegas is a "swinging hotspot" and whatever happens in Vegas stays in Vegas. My wife used to manage production lines that made compuetr chips. Her job is now in Bhopal, India and she is a medical coder. Strip clubs wantedto be all inclusive and mainstream and while they are, they drove away a lot of us undesireables.
• Longball300

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  5 years ago

  My take is similar to Ski's I think. The elimination of well paying middle class jobs from our society. Used to be a long row of strip clubs in my city on a well traveled roadway; 8-10 clubs is now down to two. What were they between? Large GM plant and large Ford plants which are now shutdown. The peeps who have disposable income do not go to clubs (or very often) and they subsequently die off.
• Muddy

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  5 years ago

  I would bet money that club is Pumps in Brooklyn.
  
  Interesting to see where it all goes for better or worse.
• Muddy

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  5 years ago

  And the fact that after I pay cover, I need to behave how you want me to behave is laughable, that’s not how the world works. I’ll spend my money how I want thanks.
• nicespice

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  5 years ago

  The more gentrified it gets tho, the less stigma there is 🤷🏻‍♀️ Who knows, maybe if I get my socially-acceptable act together and take a couple of the certification exams to become an actuary, I could even possibly transition in a way to blatantly explain what I’d been doing in the workforce...
• nicespice

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  5 years ago

  I’m just glad there wasn’t something at the bottom of this article advertising for the Dancers Resource app.
• rickdugan

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  5 years ago

  What a ridiculous article. In between her rants about white supremacists and whorephobia, she sprinkles in excuses for why she can't make money despite the fact that people are still coming to the club.
  
  Not too long ago I sat in a club drinking my cocktail and, yes, watching a game on the tv. I was also tipping selectively, but the goofy girl who eventually plopped down beside me didn't know that. She asked me, after a few seconds, "So did you come here to drink and watch the game?" It's another version of "so are you just here for the free show?" - a type of classic comment by a silly self-entitled girl who is frustrated because she can't figure out how to convert guys in the chairs to paying customers.
  
  My response was: "Not necessarily. I just haven't found anyone who I want to spend money on yet. It's your job to entice me to spend, not my job to hand you lots of money just because you showed up." I already knew that it would fall on deaf ears before I even said it, because you can't convince a girl like her that she might be the problem, but I lost my patience. She, very predictably, huffed "OK, whatever" and sauntered off.
  
  What I might have said to her if she had stayed longer is " Look honey, you're not here just to sell tits and ass. There's tits and ass all over the streets and on the Internet. You're here to sell sexy and fun vibes, at least if you want to coax these guys into spending cash." But I never had the chance.
  
  A girl like this probably works infrequently anyway an will soon burn out, no doubt chalking her failure up to this gentrification narrative complete with white supremacists and whorephobes. Meanwhile there are plenty of other girls in NYC finding many ways to cash in, no doubt including other girls working at the same club.
• san_jose_guy

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  5 years ago

  I agree with Jackslash!
  
  SJG
• rickdugan

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  5 years ago

  To be clear, I agree that gentrification is posing a challenge for urban strip clubs. Certain cities are trying as hard as they can to zone them out of existence. But all the rest of the crap in that article was one big excuse for why one girl isn't making as much as she could.
• blahblahblah23

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  5 years ago

  I couldn't get through this article.. also why would one work in a dive bar if they are in such an expensive city? Might as well go to the clubs where you can at least compete for serious money in manhattan...