nfinitplsr:

imasillyslut:

nfinitplsr:

stripperina:

Getting tax stuff ready for when I meet with my tax lady next week, and I decided for funsies to calculate out how much I pay in tip-outs and stage fees every year.

$10,000

I pay $10,000 a year just to be a stripper

Jesus tapdancing Christ

And that doesn’t even include all the extra costs of image maintenance (clothes, makeup, Brazilian waxes etc.) and cab fares to get home and shit. This is why I don’t think strippers should have to pay any taxes because we already spend so much money just to have our job. Also because I refuse to pay money to a government that refuses to protect me.  

GTFO. Strippers shouldn’t have to pay taxes because of the extra costs incurred by the profession? School teachers shouldn’t have to pay taxes then, teaching is an underpaid social service. I’ve never seen so many whiny ass people in my life. If you don’t like it, change it. And if you’re tipping out/stage fees are $10k, that’s indicative of what you’re making. Congrats to you, then!

Doesn’t think strippers should have to pay taxes…LOL. I needed a good laugh to start my day.

Fuckin’ tumblr. Everyone is a victim. You all are a stereotype for a reason.

This is a really ironic post from someone whose username is “I’m a silly slut”

You can’t compare us to teachers. Teachers, while certainly underpaid and underappreciated, have a stable salary and job security. If they reach tenure, they have that job security for life. The materials teachers buy are not necessary costs for them to work. House fees are not “extra costs” as you propose, they are necessary for our survival. Quite simple, if we don’t pay then we don’t work; we don’t have a job. We don’t have an income. We don’t have security. Even then, we only have job security for that one night. We could be fired at any given moment with no notice, no package, no nothing.

Teachers have unions, we barely get any representation in the media nonetheless on a legal level. Teachers have health care. Teachers have time off that in some situations is paid and a consistent schedule. You see if a teacher shows up to work and slacks off, they still get paid at the end of the day. I show up to work and slack off? I lose money.

I certainly have a right to complain about paying taxes to a government that refuses to protect me. Teachers have human resource departments to report to in the case of harassment. We have nothing. Strippers are literally murdered because of the stigma attached to our job and the police’s general refusal to do any work to actually hold those murderers accountable because of the “stereotype” you yourself are perpetuating.

$10,000 is not representative at all of how much a stripper makes. My former club had a house fee of $100, that’s $100 a night just to work. That’s not even 1/3^rd of the year working. It’s entirely possible to go home with negative 100 dollars. I have no idea what stripperina earned, and none of us have the right to ask her. But to assume the fee she paid just to have the right to have a job is representative of her overall earnings is grossly ignorant. You want to call me ignorant, but truth is you have no fucking clue what you’re talking about.

So the reason we have to do even deal with all of these things in the first place is because we’re given an ‘independent contractor’ status. In that we are technically paying to rent the space of the strip club. In theory that sounds fine and dandy, but in practice we’re independent contractors on paper but employees in our actual practice. Virtually every strip club violates our basic labor rights by treating us like employees and up until very recently, the law and police haven’t given a shit because of the same exact stigmatized mindset regarding stereotypes that you’re perpetuating here.

Let’s take a moment to look at your tags…

#stupid people for the win – except for that you clearly have no clue what you’re talking about

#ignorance is bliss – see point above ^^ You’re not a stripper, you don’t know our life. You don’t know the battles we face. And you clearly have no basic understanding of how our jobs operate. So much irony, I cannot.

#strippers are whiny – yeah I think when our basic labor rights are violated everyday without question and the government and police refuse to protect us, when the stigma of the stripper stereotype that you’re perpetuating has very real life consequences on our livelihoods, careers, and safety then we’re allowed to whine

#if it sucks so bad… QUIT – because every stripper has the option to just quit their job without facing consequences. Oh yeah, we don’t. Ever hear of a resume gap? It’s when a sex worker works primarily in sex work for so long that when she tries to get a non-sex work job she has a gap in our resume. Putting “stripper” on a job application isn’t exactly a guaranteed way to get hired, in fact it’s the opposite. Post-sex work employment discrimination is a very real issue. Even then, the odds of finding another job that pays us as well as stripping is close to none. Quitting is a privilege that not every stripper has.

Seriously, go spend one day in a strippers shoes (figuratively and literally, I wanna see you try to be sexy in front of dozens of strangers in 8 inch heels on a stage doing pole tricks requiring physical stamina I’m sure you don’t have… for hours every night) I need a good laugh to start my day. 

Get the fuck out.

my sweet angry Christ who are these people? “Just a silly slut everyone loves”?

Like they want to be so edgy and sexual and follow strippers and talk about how awesome sex is and how much they love fucking, but when it comes down to the actual nitty gritty of how workers in the sex industry are marginalised and financially exploited, all that fun talk goes out the window and we see the mindshuttered conservative within!

I mean, I want to focus on the “don’t like it quit” because it’s what I hear most often as a person who is, AS YOU SO COMPASSIONATELY SUGGESTED, trying to change a fucked, misogynist, and financially exploitive system.

"Don’t like it quit" is the mantra of the uneducated and terrified of change.

Don’t like it quit is what they told mill girls who didn’t want to be locked into their catch fire places of business, who wanted an 8 hour day, who wanted a day off, who wanted to put an end to child labour.

People DIED, literally died, for these rights while the more privileged said “don’t like it, quit”.

If people didn’t struggle and protest and rock the boat, you’d be a silly slut trapped in a marriage without the vote.

So no, “don’t like it quit” is not an adequate answer. To anything. If I don’t like it, imagine how many other people don’t like it and are terrified to say anything.

Next, the idea that paying through the nose is a fair compensation for making a living income.

You obviously have no idea about the financial exploitation inherent in the structure of the strip club, so let us educate you. Listen to us: no, it isn’t legal. We’re bled of money because the male owners (and make no mistake, they are male) have found that the most profitable way to structure the club, and they are able to do this because this is largely a disposable workforce: women without a lot of social capital, without an education or friends to let them know this is illegal, women who want to get in, make their money, and get out. There’s a high turnover because it’s taxing physically and emotionally and yet perceived as appealing, the common misconception that it’s such an easy job. We can’t protest because there are at least ten other girls dying to replace us on schedule should we get too feisty for an owner’s liking.

And we are lied to: told that we’re contractors when we’re treated as anything but, told that the alternative is worse when plenty of bartenders and waitresses keep their tips.

We pay huge amounts of money that our customers think goes only to us, and then the state, not knowing that club owners are illegally keeping this off the books income, expects us to pay another THIRD to the state.

And like I said in my most recent letter from the editor, the money that club owners take doesn’t go to roads or libraries, it doesn’t go to the upkeep of kids schools, it doesn’t go to parks or new textbooks, it doesn’t even fucking go to repairing ceilings or broken mirrors or racks. It goes to purchasing another club, to a Mediterranean vacation when the wife finds out they were cheating, it goes to the Guinness book of world records largest ever hair plug transplant (these are all true btw).

So no. Don’t like it quit is not an option.

And not paying taxes is not a very tenable option, not in 2015 with all the things we need taxes for.

So ending this system: that’s the option I want.

And also for you to fall back and stay in your lane like a self-confessed silly fool ought.