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Strip Clubs Get Away With Exploiting Dancers Every Day, But These Strippers Are Fighting Back After a decade of working as a stripper, Brandi Campbell had finally had enough of being groped by customers and management alike. In that time, she’d...

Strip Clubs Get Away With Exploiting Dancers Every Day, But These Strippers Are Fighting Back



After a decade of working as a stripper, Brandi Campbell had finally had enough of being groped by customers and management alike.

In that time, she’d worked at 57 different clubs across six different states and says she experienced sexual harassment in most of them. But earlier this year, while working for Larry Flint’s Hustler Club in Las Vegas, she got fed up. Many people — including clients — may think that touching exotic dancers comes with the territory, but the job doesn’t entail or permit unwanted sexual contact, just as in any other occupation.

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‘Does The Princess Fantasy Drive Us Insane?’ Co-Creators Of UnREAL On Their Breakout First Season

UnREAL is the breakout show of the summer. (Not to say we told you so, but, ahem.)

The new drama takes us into the deeply messed-up minds of the producers behind a Bachelor-style reality show, Everlasting, on which a suitor — Adam (Freddie Stroma), the British ne’er-do-well-heir to a family fortune — has his pick of a telegenic phalanx of hopeful brides, a handful of whom are ditched each week in this Hunger Games of the heart until only one wife-worthy candidate remains. Rachel (Shiri Appleby) starts the season recovering from a professional and relationship flameout. When she returns, only partly by choice, she kills it at work while losing it in her personal life: The better she as at her job (bending the wills of the contestants to fit her ideal narrative arc on-screen) the worse she is at literally everything else. Her boss, Quinn (Constance Zimmer), manipulates Rachel in turn, and by the end of the season, no one emerges with idealism or integrity in tact.

The feminists behind UnREAL

(via think-progress)

This Is What ‘Breastuarants’ Actually Think Of Their Customers“Popularly known as “breastaurants,” the franchises that cater to the male gaze by employing scantily clad waitresses are enjoying booming business even as the rest of the restaurant...

This Is What ‘Breastuarants’ Actually Think Of Their Customers

Popularly known as “breastaurants,” the franchises that cater to the male gaze by employing scantily clad waitresses are enjoying booming business even as the rest of the restaurant industry has been struggling. Case in point: Twin Peaks, a Texas-based chain that was founded in 2005 to provide an even racier alternative to the ubiquitous Hooters franchise, was the fastest-growing restaurant chain in the U.S. in 2013.

This leaked memo says it all.

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