I agree, there’s nothing weird about going to strip clubs, particularly if you’re on the outs with the girlfriend (though I’m probably weird in that I’ve only done so once in my life, dragged there by some other guys), but thinking that Lady Gaga is hot pegs the weirdometer for me. As he says, she may be quite attractive if you toss her in a shower and get all the paint off her, but I don’t know who she’s trying to appeal to with her public persona.
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I’ve never been to a strip club either.
Weirdo.
I think she looks like Marilyn Manson’s brother.
Hey, Rule 34, right?
Ah, yes, The Dual Standard raises it’s ugly head yet again.
Guys are NOT supposed to do this, but women ARE allowed to have the “Hunky Fireman of Hose Company 69” calendar prominently displayed in their bathroom. It’s for charity!
Likewise drooling over numerous posters, pictures, magazine articles, movies, TV shows with guys who are built like the “”HFoHC69” is OK. Hell even GOING to see the “Chippendale Dancers” is alright.
All based on the fact that MEN have been doing these things for centuries! Let me say I don’t, nor did I ever do the clubs, but I still hate the dual standards crap I see / hear daily.
What’s with visiting this Dear Wendy site? Do you go there often Rand?
Talk about weird, how about “Weird Al” Yankovic and his new video “I Perform This Way”? It is easy enough to find on the Web so I won’t link to it.
Do you go there often Rand?
Only when following a link from Instapundit.
If you’re a guy, and you read “Dear Wendy”, does it make you a weirdo?
I say no, but it’s a step in that direction 🙂
If I want to pay women to not let me touch them, I’ll stay home.
Weird Al hasn’t lost his touch. Still a great parodist, and chameleon.
“Ah, yes, The Dual Standard raises it’s ugly head yet again.”
I don’t know any women who have that particular double standard. Then again, I live in the real world, not the halls of academia. Most of the women I know would have their Chippendales calendar up right next to their husband’s Playgirl calendar. I did have some female co-workers who used to gather up a group and go to one of those places with guy dancers, but I wasn’t really interested. I don’t care for clubs, and most of those places play music that is not to my taste.
Trent
+1
Andrea, if you know women whose husbands have Playgirl calendars, I’m not entirely certain that it actually conforms to the typical gender stereotypes.
PlayBOY calendars, on the other hand…
Just razzin’ you on the mixup. 🙂
I’ve heard that the women get ten times crazier at the male strip clubs than the guys normally do at the titty bars. Guys usually just sit back and watch the stage and if they wanna tip they walk up one at a time and wait their turn for a little shaking stuff in your face action.
But women? woah boy! They will mob the stage screaming at the top of their lungs when a dancer makes his appearance. The group of ladies will crawl and push their way up and over each other trying to reach and grab whatever they can on the dancer. All the while the dancer will frantically dry hump whoever or whatever falls in his way.
Not that I would know any of this first hand. *cough*
weirdo is right
I read the article and I have one question, how did Andrew get this idea, “To me, the weirdest part of your letter is that your boyfriend thinks Lady Gaga is hot.”
From reading this statement? “After six-plus minutes of shuffling noises I heard him say to his co-worker, “Hey man, you should have been there to see this stripper with me at the club on Saturday, she looked like Lady Gaga,” and they both laughed.”
That sounds to me like the boyfriend was making fun of a stripper because she looked like Lady Gaga.
There is absolutely no irony whatsoever in having male heterosexuality deemed weird by The Metro-Sexual Five!
Lady gaga is hideous, anyone who says otherwise has never seen a woman, let alone an attractive woman.
I’ve been to strip clubs on 4 occasions, when I turned 18, when a friend turned 31, when another friend was proud that he was dating a stripper, and when I wanted to find out if another friends wife was stripping.
I never enjoyed it. I like girls who like me. Now, I have DATED strippers, but I didn’t know they were strippers at the time, I just thought that they were hot and that I would be funny.
Have nothing against strippers, but every time I went I thought “how effed up is the world that we have to degrade these girls” (and yes most of them are young enough to still be called girls, not as in adolescent, but barely adult) so much that this is their best form of income?”
It offended me as a man, just attending those places. One of my girlfriends who worked as a stripper was a resperatory therapist. Another was an RN who needed to pay off her student loans, another was a highschool teacher!!! I was AGHAST! “they won’t recognize me doug.” she said. “I did.” But she needed the money and she had only so many years of that level of hotness left to her.
It’s a travesty.
Josh, I’ve always assumed women who act like that for a male stripper are just playing up to the camera, since I only know of such behavior from heavily edited videos on “World’s Dumbest.” I swear.
As for guys at a conventional strip club, one of the advantages of it being a group visit is, the newbies get schooled by their buddies in what not to do, lest they all get removed by force. The management in those places cannot afford and will not tolerate having the talent manhandled.
I hate my computer. Anyway, what I was trying to add before it spontaneously back-buttoned and tried to submit the same comment a second time is…
This woman with the complaint heard “she looked like Lady Gaga” and concluded “beautiful woman.”
Either she has never seen Lady Gaga, in which case her boyfriend can defuse the situation easily enough, or she herself is no prize in the looks department.
Can I come over Trent and not touch your woman? (I think I’m suppose to add a hee hee here, but I never did watch Bevis and Butthead.)
Weird??? I’ve just always wanted to visit Australia.
Alright, I admit I’m weird. But definitely not in a lady gaga way (it took me a few years after the fact to even know who that was. I think that’s the point of the outrageous costumes… to get above the noise.)
Then again, as a kid I use to sit at the sidewalk cafes in SoHo and watch the parade of people trying to outdo each other in weird. I’m a people watcher (when did Dean Martin become a weirdo?)
Hmmm… then there’s the religious element of it… def: Peculiarly unsettling, as if of supernatural origin or nature.
She’s unattractive because she chooses to be. Gaga can be pretty, as illustrated by the closeup at 00:26 in the “Poker Face” video.
Part of attractiveness is attitude, and most of the time Gaga’s is very un-pretty, that of an obnoxious narcissistic brat.
She’s still easier to take than Paris Hilton. I have never seen anyone who can flash a smile that is simultaneously flirtatious and haughty like hers. It’s a smile that says, “I hate your guts. Don’t you think I’m hot?”
Am I a weirdo for not knowing about the Dear Wendy site?
It means you probably don’t follow the links from Instapundit. Does not reading Instapundit make you weird?
Yes Alan you are. That’s not a bad thang.
Is it weird that years ago I remember somebody describing the interest as the thing Instapundit read all of to provide links for the rest of us?
Internet… damn fingers decided to spell interest on their own again.
No, finger spelling on their own is not weird.