The awkward criticism moments
Ever have to deal with that?Over a week ago, I was hanging out with a regular who consistently shows up twice a month. Has good rapport with club staff too and does caricature drawings of them, and also the club bar regs. He’s hanging around my stage, then I see somebody else come up so I go over. Person tips me and mocks him saying “look up ‘serial killer’ in the dictionary and there he is. Idk what to say so I just shrug and thank him for the tip and saying hi.
Or another perspective, whenever customers criticize another dancer…usually for being too thick or too many tats. Bleh. I keep my responses neutral because I don’t want any part of their negativity. I get it that some won’t be to everyone’s tastes but I’ve generally gotten along with other dancers at the 20something clubs I’ve been at and don’t really want to engage in any type of talk that could jeopardize that.
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Anyways, any stories you guys have? Dancer who doesn’t like another dancer that you get along with? Or anything else?
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Anyway, I looked away quickly, because I suspect him knowing I heard her say that would only make him feel worse/angrier about it. After maybe three more sentences of banter he said, "So, I'm going to go tip the girl on stage. Have a good night."
A friend beat up a girl she didn't like for talking to me.
I had an awkward moment talking shiy about a girl to someone she was friends with but didn't know. My problem was her getting too fucked up and stealing shit
Really miss this one dancer that would sit with me and we would talk about who we thought were hot and what we liked when it came to women. She never had anything negative to say about any of the other girls and I loved that. I don’t think I would want someone sitting with me that just wanted to talk shit, I don’t need those vibes.
I don’t like when customers talk about dancers to me, idc, idc. Talking about her is costing me time. And he’s probably gonna talk about me when I leave too.
I don’t talk about customers to other dancers. I’m paid to keep my mouth shut, unless he was an asshole n did something shitty. Which is rare.
I don’t talk to customers about patrons. If that patron hears me it could cost me money. I have some social posture I like to think and if it don’t make dollars it won’t make sense
I’ve never found any value in people talking bad about other people and putting down other people often just b/c they think “it’s funny” – the few instances a dancer or custy has tried to talk negatively about someone in the club (another custy or dancer) I either don’t engage (act as if I didn’t hear it) and at times I’ll just express an opposing opinion. At times I’ve been turned-off by dancers w/ critical-mouths and have not gone for dances w/ them where I would have o/w b/c I didn’t like their attitude/running-mouth-about-others.
Being a pale-skinned Cuban, most Cubana strippers think I’m a gringo – at times I’ve had Cubanas talking shit (among themselves) about custies while sitting next to me or close enough for me to hear them thinking I would not understand the un-nice things they were saying.
She'd easily point out if a stripper had an unflattering outfit on. Then if she was a baby stripper she would often constructively find a way to tell her directly how to fix it.
She was very tactful publicly but with me or her true stripper friends she might talk more shit and be more critical.
I'll continue to try to find out more why she feels so isolated at work. It doesn't jibe with the part of her personality I've seen.
The dancers would sometimes share the nicknames of the pls as they were leaving.
One was called kitty litter because he always smelled like used cat box. I can't remember the rest but there were several.
I asked them what my nickname was and they adamantly assured me I didn't have one. Sure. I still wonder what my nickname was.