What about a mid-30's man taking pole dancing classes? Is that okay?
(I don't think I can get a refund).
I would pay to see that
i don't think ANYONE should be taking pole dancing classes eeew eeeew eeeew
I think that pole dancing is for stripper fantasy
Or, that you are heading on vacation and plan to attend a taping of Springer.
I don't think pole "dancing" is an appropriate name -- isn't it more like pole slithering? Does anybody do this except sex workers?
I think pole dancing lessons should me a mandatory class in all our schools.
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I say whatever gets you moving and off of the couch is good.
They aren't hurting anyone, so why the hell not? If it helps you phys, mentally and spiritualy
I
say slither on!
p.s. those legs look familiar, are they yours??
Well, I guess it depends on how you're dressed while doing it -- whether you're "exercising" or not... LOL!
People working as pole dancers in strip clubs don't wear much at all, and could for example have AIDS and get a body fluid on the pole. I leave to your imaginations what body fluids are possible.
It's part of that whole 'post feminist raunch culture' thing. I can't say I like it. I thought feminism was about NOT being a sex object.
I cannot leave a comment, I am suffering from an attack of pole smear.
What's it to ya, anyway?
Why so judgmental?
But it's "empowering," Radmila!
Dorothy,
I guess. If you need to be empowered that way.
Claudia,
What's it to you if I have an opinion?
I think what I think. If you don't like it, don't read it. If I like my mature women to exhibit more decorum than pole dancing, that's my business.
Krysss,
Ewwww...
Katja,
I associate pole dancing with strippers. Old strippers are just sad. Middle aged, professional women who aspire to it are even sadder.
Tat and Anna,
There are millions of other ways to "get off the couch" other than swinging your middle aged ass around a pole in clear heels.
Tunesmith,
You're a guy. You would...but I'll bet you wouldn't want to see your granny doing it.
I really want to try it. I think it would be fun. And the thing is: it's a class! It's not like granny's going to perform in front of anyone. It's purely for her own enjoyment. I say: go for it!
P.S. My brand of feminism is about the right to choose whether you want to be a sex object or not.
I understand what you're saying Icy. I'm too conservative to find it appealing. I really do see it as a menopausal crisis. It's hard to get older, and some women just cling to what it was to be young. I feel the same way about older women who don track pants with words like "juicy" on the ass....ok anyone with anything written across their ass...
Rad,
My second comment was fascetious. I don't consider this exercise.
Anna, please excuse my curt reply. To you (and actually to Claudia as well)...I've had a particularly trying couple of days. I shouldn't answer comments from work
Chill, woman! I meant my comment in a playful fashion, there’s no need to gnarl. In any case, I will try to address your –quite poignant- remarks:
Comment 1: “What's it to you if I have an opinion?”
Two weeks ago you asked all your readers (among them, me) to vote for your blog (“Not that I'm competitive or anything...but, VOTE FOR ME!!” - November 11)
Voting for your blog implies, in a manner of speaking, voting for its contents; therefore, I would say that what you write is sort of my business too (at least, you made it my business when you asked for my vote)
Your opinions would concern you and only you if you kept them to yourself; however, when you share them in a public forum, and then take it a step further and ask people to vote for you, then yes, there is something to me.
Comment 2: “If I like my mature women to exhibit more decorum than pole dancing, that's my business.”
Girl, reading this one would think that some forms of bigotry are acceptable to you.
You are quick to jump when you or your loved ones are hurt by racial discrimination (post of November 24, among others), but you have no problem with disrespecting other people when their selected pastime does not conform to the “Milinkov List of Respectable Hobbies”… apparently, it is OK to cook, but it just ain’t right to twirl around a pole...
Have these pole-loving women hurt you in any way?
Have they done anything to interfere with your or your family’s lifestyle?
Does their pastime have any impact on you?
So again, I ask: what’s it to ya if they like to climb, slide, swirl or glide? If what they do does not affect you, why do you judge them so harshly?
Intolerance, taken to extremes, is at the root of many great conflicts in our world. It is precisely intolerant leaders who can become incredibly dangerous when they are in a position of power. Of all people, I would have expected you to know and understand this…
Comment 3: ”I think what I think. If you don't like it, don't read it.”
Consider it done.
One final line: your blog is nominated under the “Humour” category, but just think of the following: when you make cruel remarks about people based on how you think they should or shouldn’t spend their free time… it ain’t funny. It’s just mean.
You're entitled.
All I can say is EW, but not because of the age factor. This whole raunch culture -- skanky=sexy -- creeps me out so much. Dressing like streetwalkers in public, pole dancing, modeling ourselves after porn "stars;" EW EW EW.
There's nothing wrong with middle-aged women wanting to be sexy, Rad. I'm hotter at 45 -- less inhibited, and MUCH more imaginative -- than I ever was in my 20s. Sex is a very important part of a woman's life, and that shouldn't cease to be true just because she hits a certain age.
There's nothing wrong with spicing up one's sex life, either, in my opinion.
I just think there are so many ways other than freaking pole-dancing to be sexy.
(Not to mention who seriously needs LESSONS???)
Lady in the living room, tiger in the bedroom. It's an old-school sentiment, and not one that most feminists can stand to even consider, but it's one I've always lived by, and one that's made me AND the men I've loved pretty happy.
I just don't think I have to act like a $20 whore to be a tiger. There are so many ways to be hot and sexy; I just don't see pole-dancing as one of them. A little private raunch can be fun -- letting go of the inhibitions and all that -- but in general, this manufactured, perfunctory, porn-driven culture we're living in any more is doing nothing more than lowering the bar. Making us ALL less sexy, less erotic, less interesting.
Noo....middle aged sexy is not what I was describing.
What I was talking about is middle aged desperation...which is what I see pole dancing, skimpy clothes too much make up wearing, Teen fad clothing...and so on.
Women who need to do this...I see them as sad, and desperate.
I agree with you.
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