PeonForHer -> RE: The natural power that women have over men... (5/16/2010 2:03:33 PM)
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FR, OK, to bring it sort of back to topic: I've always wondered what happens to those women who *did once* believe that they have this 'natural power' over men, but don't any longer. Was there some trauma involved, or was there a slow realisation? I ask this in relation to quite a depressing little TV documentary I saw a while ago. In this, a film crew interviewed various pole-dancers about their work. One of the women involved had left the job a couple of years before in order to have a baby. After her baby was some months, she'd taken up secretarial work to make ends meet. But they didn't. She couldn't earn a fraction of what she'd earned as a pole-dancer. So, she went back to each of her old clubs, one by one, seeking that work again. The news was bad. As a result of having that baby and getting just a touch older, gaining just one or two more wrinkles - she couldn't get work. She was in a terrible state. She was crying tears of rage to the camera. But her bitterness wasn't just at not being able to make those great earnings she'd once made - they were also about shattered pride. This was one very, very vain woman who'd been used to a great deal of adulation. Now, all that had evaporated. The most awful thing about the programme, for me, though, was the reaction of the club-owners. All of them, no matter that they were hardened, business-minded types, wriggled so desperately uncomfortably at saying 'No' to this woman. They wanted to give her any explanation other than 'Look, you don't have the youth anymore'. It reminded me so much of that line that's so often given about celebrities - society inflates them, like balloons, to bursting point - then sticks needles in them. The same will happen to 'Goddesses'. I'd suggest that it's not a good idea for men to keep piling on that adulation, because it's not given responsibly. That is, it's not given with a care that price of it will one day have to be paid, in full. I guess it should go without saying that I don't think it's a good idea for women to swallow that guff without a big pinch of salt, either.
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