Published author Lara Morrow reflects on her experiences doing her undergrad liberal arts thesis about strippers in America’s Bible belt:
30 Rock’s pilot features Tracy Morgan bringing Tina Fey’s character Liz Lemon to a strip club. While there, she proclaims, “I’m not like these girls, Tracy. I don’t have sex for money!” The nearest stripper indignantly shoots back, “Neither do we!” Tracy outwardly shares in the stripper’s indignation while mouthing to Liz, “YES THEY DO!”
Not dissimilarly from our introduction to 30 Rock, respondents to a study entitled “Stripteasers: The Anatomy and Career Contingencies of a Deviant Occupation,” published in 1970 by researchers James K. Skipper and C. McCaghy, describe women who take their clothes off for a living as “stupid,” “lower class,” “prostitutes,” “can’t do anything else for a living,” “oversexed,” and “dumb.”Read full article
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