Thanks for saying that Micheal.
I was going to ignore the issue, but now you have me riled up, and I just want to add a few things.
A few weeks before I did the shoot, I quit my job as a stripper and lingerie waitress. I'd been doing it for almost a year, and I was getting pretty well-known. I won a title at Miss Nude NSW. It was all so glamourous. WRONG!
Every day, there'd be some (there are far too many words I want to put here, but I won't because they just aren't nice) male saying "smack that" sort of things. Yeah, I was a stripper, taking my clothes off for money and it was to be expected, so I'd usullay let it slide, or laugh it off. All the while wondering how these men go home and treat their wives and girlfriends, if they had them, when they could say those sort of things to me.
This isn't a sob story- poor little stripper, getting called names. It really didn't bother me too much while I was working. In my mind, no matter what they said, they were still the ones handing over a lot of money for half an hour of my time.
The reason I quit, was because I was surrounded by men like that all the time, I began to get a very warped view of men in general. It spilled over into my personal life, and I had a hard time seeing a male as anything other than somebody who wanted to "smack that from the back". Not overly healthy for me, and not fair to the majority of men out there, who really aren't like that.
I did the shoot, mostly for me. I did it because I'm proud to be a woman.
And then I get some fag saying something like that, (and it's only since I read what Micheal said that I'm getting mad about the whole thing) and I'm flung back into the days of old, where it was just part of my day. Then I realised, I DON'T HAVE TO PUT UP WITH IT HERE!!!!
This is not a porn site. None of us are paid for it, and we deserve a bit of respect.
It's lucky it was me that comment was directed at, and not some shy young girl (or boy) taking their clothes off for the first time. Micheal was right when he said that it's a win-win situation for all to just be polite about it. |