Saturday, June 21, 2003
Idle curiousity caused me to check out this link about lapdancing. Surprisingly, I found it in a blog named Totalitarianism Today by Alina Stefanescu. The point I'm making here is that there are worse jobs than mine--something I often forget. Yes, washing dishes at the zoo is no fun (it's a zoo, not a circus), but lapdancing would be worse I'm so sure. Look at the expressions on their faces. They really are trying to remember what time they told the sitter they'd be home or how they'll make the car payment this month. Their whole world looks so, excuse me, plain tawdry, boring and depressing.
Photographer Juliana Beasley left NYU's photography program after two years determined to make it as a photographer, except that it's hard to make enough to eat when you're starting out. So she danced nude and did $20 lapdances for eight years from NY to Reno, and always brought her camera. Her new book Lapdancer, from which these pictures are taken, is the result. She doesn't try to make it look glamorous or exciting does she? Good pics to show teenage girls who think they can just run away and become dancers to support themselves. Oh gross. What a waste.
Oh, by the way, don't worry that Totalitarianism Today has gotten totally off track. The link about the lapdancing was just one sentence. Then the author of the blog launched into a long post about Romania, talking about things I'm not sure I understood involving the world bank, and Romania's Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, and the Canadian Company Gabriel Resources Ltd. and so on into 10 year VAT waivers & corporate tax holidays. Long story short: political profiteering at its worst. Go read it.
But, boy, couldn't you just say that about the sleazebags who run those lapdance dumps: Political profiteers at their worst. Men taking advantage of women's place in this society. I just bet if a woman gets sick or pregnant she is just out the door. No benefits. No security. Nothing to her name but $20 a dance. She probably thinks it's better than being a maid. doing daycare, working for the post office, or maybe washing dishes at the zoo.
Photographer Juliana Beasley left NYU's photography program after two years determined to make it as a photographer, except that it's hard to make enough to eat when you're starting out. So she danced nude and did $20 lapdances for eight years from NY to Reno, and always brought her camera. Her new book Lapdancer, from which these pictures are taken, is the result. She doesn't try to make it look glamorous or exciting does she? Good pics to show teenage girls who think they can just run away and become dancers to support themselves. Oh gross. What a waste.
Oh, by the way, don't worry that Totalitarianism Today has gotten totally off track. The link about the lapdancing was just one sentence. Then the author of the blog launched into a long post about Romania, talking about things I'm not sure I understood involving the world bank, and Romania's Rosia Montana Gold Corporation, and the Canadian Company Gabriel Resources Ltd. and so on into 10 year VAT waivers & corporate tax holidays. Long story short: political profiteering at its worst. Go read it.
But, boy, couldn't you just say that about the sleazebags who run those lapdance dumps: Political profiteers at their worst. Men taking advantage of women's place in this society. I just bet if a woman gets sick or pregnant she is just out the door. No benefits. No security. Nothing to her name but $20 a dance. She probably thinks it's better than being a maid. doing daycare, working for the post office, or maybe washing dishes at the zoo.
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