Comments on: Behind Lame Film Reviews

By: Roulette Rose

Roulette Rose — Tue, 28 Jun 2011 20:00:51 +0000

As a burlesque dancer who got her fill of stripping on Bourbon Street in New Orleans, I knew it was something that wasn’t right for me in the long run, but I’m glad I tried it and moved in a different direction to get into burlesque.
I think a lot of people don’t know enough to know where to stand, but most people open there mouths before they think it through.

By: Milton Burlesque

Milton Burlesque — Fri, 06 May 2011 00:27:45 +0000

It is true that a burlesque show is different from what you will see in a modern strip club but some of the biggest names in neo-burlesque ( Dita von Teese, Catherine D’Lish, Jo Boobs and Indigo Blue to name a few) paid their dues in strip clubs. Dita, for instance, refers to herself as a stripper and is quick to point out that the great Gypsy Rose Lee did the same. What has happened is with burlesque garnering more main stream acceptance, many burlesquers haven’t worked in strip clubs and therefore think of themselves as being better than their sisters working the pole. Sure they may not be doing lap dances in the VIP room or going fully nude but if you are taking off your clothes on a stage in front of room full of strangers, you are stripping and therefore are a stripper. Since burlesque shows may have comedy acts or musical numbers not every burlesque performer is a stripper but at the end of the day, there is almost always someone that is going to strip. The strip tease was born in burlesque and the modern strip clubs came from burlesque so while they may not be the same they are closely related.

By: Meghan Murphy

Meghan Murphy — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:54:46 +0000

I tend to think my perspective is more relevant than ever. Especially in response to the supposed ‘neo-burlesque movement’, so often framed as the ‘new feminism’ or as representative of female empowerment in a ‘post feminist’ culture.

By: Catherine

Catherine — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 06:45:21 +0000

In reply to Meghan Murphy. I do realize now—thank you! I still do however, find your viewpoint representative of an era that ended, as you pointed out, decades earlier.

By: Meghan Murphy

Meghan Murphy — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:25:09 +0000

Oh no of course not. I suppose that she could simply google ‘second wave feminism’. Then she would know exactly what that was before linking to a post, written by me, therein implying that I am, in fact, a second wave feminist. Just a couple of decades off is all. I find the internet to be enormously helpful when trying to build arguments about things one might be entirely unfamiliar with.

By: Monica

Monica — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 03:12:24 +0000

I doubt the author of the post knows anything about your birthday. Should she?

By: Meghan Murphy

Meghan Murphy — Thu, 28 Apr 2011 02:48:53 +0000

Speaking of ‘silly coverage’, you do realize that, by the time I was born, the second wave was all but over, yes?