Stripper Culture

Ever since I have started my new job. I have noticed a trend going on that I don’t know what to feel about it. Don’t get it twisted, this grew legs all the way back in the late 90s early 2000s. Now it has a full body, and it is affecting everybody. I was not going to say anything because one I am a woman in my 30s who don’t know the top 40 hits of 2023 right now, but it was a video i saw on Instagram. The video was of a woman talking about how today’s trendsetters are dressing like strippers. At first, I brushed it off but then I thought back to the whole Keke Palmer debate. Long story short, this woman is telling the truth. Don’t get it twisted, I didn’t see anything wrong with Keke Plamer’s outfit but I’m not going to lie. Her outfit was giving Playa’s Club realness if you ask me. I am not a modest preacher or a whore shamer but when I see society going to hell in a hand basket. I have to call it out. I will admit to wearing lingerie to a party before, but my lingerie still left a lot to the imagination. It seems to me like people are having a see-through contest with their outfits with the pasties and all. I know people have felt like Lil Kim’s 1999 MTV video music award show lavender jumpsuit was revolutionary, but I feel like it was the start of something that has since gotten worse throughout the years. What some people failed to realize is that Lil Kim’s outfit was a homage to the strippers. The pasty’s part to be exact. now in 2023 it seems like every female rapper is either dressed like a porn star (some of these rappers are actual porn stars too) or a stripper. Just like the male rappers it seems like the female rappers are actually living that life. Even admitting to getting STDS/STIS. At what point do this stop? Don’t get it twisted once again I don’t look down on strippers or people who are sex workers, but it is not a lifestyle that should be praised. It is one of those jobs you do temporarily just to get through college or to help you find something else to do. It is very taxing on the workers body’s and is detrimental the vagina in general. It baffles me that we live in a world that is okay with the career but is not okay with doing better is something I don’t want to understand. You don’t want young girls out there thinking that they have to do something strange for a little change. I am good with women sexual liberation but i am not okay with the exploitation of women’s sexuality. I am not pretending like going to college and getting a job is not hard work (i had a hard time getting a job in my 20s) but you don’t want your daughter using her body to get what she wants.