Maybe I was a bit harshâŠLet me get into the nitty gritty of why I HATE THE TRAILER and mostly likely the movie. So, whatâs wrong with the trailer?
Short answer: EVERYTHING. This movie reinforces all of societies thoughts about what the stripping is, or what they think of the sex industry as a whole.Â
Okay, before the long answer I will say this â the only thing I find believable is the premise. If you read the synopsis on IMDb, it says that a woman finds herself in financial ruin after trying to care for her father who is dying of cancer. She turns to stripping to manage the bills. Totally believable, I donât doubt this or something similar has happened to someone who has entered the sex industry. In fact, it mirrors my story a little bit. My dad died at 18, I found myself mentally and financially unraveling 4 years after his death. I took the the strip club to find financial, and eventually, mental stability.
BUT BUT they ruin it, and hereâs howâŠ
Strike one - Stripping is NOT AS GLAMOROUS AS THEY MAKE IT LOOK. It just isnât! Not all strippers look like the way they make them appear in this trailer, these women are clearly Hollywoodâs idea of what a stripper looks like â which is far from reality. Real people are strippers; and people are beautiful, ugly, mediocre, perfect, and flawed. Of course, beauty is subjective and I believe that this industry accommodates that to a point. I find myself needing to let this go thoughâŠafter all this is a movie. The public wants to see good looking people with problems. Okay, fineâŠ
Strike two - Somewhere just before the minute mark thereâs a voice over that says, âItâs the money that brings the girls in, but the attention that keeps them coming back.â And to that I say â FFUUCCKK YYOOUU.Â
This line was clearly written by someone who has little to NO knowledge of general stripper experience. At best the writer may have had an anecdote of some bitter retired strip club manager.
Every dancer I know stays a dancer because she wants MONEY. Women, generally, can get attention anywhere if they dress us up and go out on the town. Iâm not a man, so I canât speak for them, but Iâm assuming the same is true for them. So why go to a strip club, a place where you have to PAY TO WORK (usually), a place where people STIGMATIZE YOU for doing a job that is COMPLETELY LEGAL, a place where people IMMEDIATELY THINK LESSER OF YOU to get attention?! WHY WHY WHY WHY?!Â
I know strippers who love their jobs, Iâm one of them, but itâs certainly not for the attention. And I certainly donât know any strippers who stay stripping strictly for the attention, as nice of a perk as it maybe for some of us. I do this job because it gives me more fiscal control of my life, flexibility in my schedule and the ability to travel. If anything, because of dancing, I HATE getting attention outside the club! Whenever someone hits on me I think they owe me money.
Strike three â just after the minute mark a black male appears saying, âIf you were my girl I would never share you with strangers.â Now we saw this man before, he was asking about the leading lady. I would assume that heâs the manager of the club, however in this trailer, they portray him like a pimp. Letâs for now, ignore the clearly sexist nature of this commentâŠletâs pay attention to the fact that this is how they chose to push the plot line. Like, câmon, REALLY?! Are we doing this right now?! There are so many kinds of strippers in the world and you want to go with this kind of stripper?! The most boring, predictable story eevveerr, for one. And for two, thanks again, Hollywood, for reinforcing a negative stereotype of an industry no one really wants or cares to understand.Â
Now, donât get me wrong, pimps do appear in strip clubs to recruit womenâŠmaybe thatâs what this story ends up being about. But there are just as many dancers who avoid pimps like the plague because they donât want to hand their hard earned money over to someone else at the end of a long shift. Many dancers get into this business because they have a goal in mind â to finish school, to care for loved ones, to travel, to start a business, to not be homeless â so getting involved with a pimp is counter intuitive. However, again, I donât now that there are dancers who end up with a pimp for whatever reason. In my experience itâs RARE that this happens, but thatâs not to say that it doesnât.
The last two strikes â When the leading ladyâs partner says, âThe woman I know is a good girlâ or something like that. Again, another FFUUCCKK YYOOUU. This good girl gone bad girl stripper troupe is played out, Hollywood. Think of something more interesting than that, will you please?! Thatâs right on up there with, âI thought I was in controlâ line that the leading lady says. I justâŠughâŠthat line could apply to anyone in any industry.Â
So stop Hollywood, just stop making boring predictable, useless, uninformed stories about an industry you strictly use to exploit for its seemingly âedgyâ feel. Itâs not edgy if itâs predictable. Itâs edgy if youâre using played out troupes. Also, this industry isnât edgy. Itâs everywhere, typical even, and in fabric of the world. Itâs just the public chooses to ignore it or stigmatize it, and youâre not helping change that.Â
Hope that answers your question Anon,
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