another book
Jan. 31st, 2006 12:20 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elizabearCandy Girl / Diablo Cody
I disagree a bit with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dsrtao, who said, "Nothing significant happens to Ms. Cody in a year which she spends working as a stripper in Minneapolis. She's a slacker when she starts, and a slacker when she ends." I think something significant does happen to her, and it's not good. She's fairly clued-in to the kind of life it is and how she'll be treated in it even before she gets started at age 24, but the reality of it wears her down physically and emotionally, makes her jaded, creates an addiction to cigarettes, and exposes her to degredation and danger. She starts stripping for kicks, but by the end it's only about the money and what she needs to do and how she needs to look in order to make the big bucks. She moves on to being a peep-show girl (this section contains the only truly revolting and nauseating portion of the book in the description of one regular customer's behavior) and a phone-sex worker. In the end she returns to "a square job", but I think she hasn't been "freed" by her experiences, but rather had a somewhat cynical part of herself turn into something as hard and polished as a tumbled stone. Personally, I'd find that a heavy and unpleasant load to carry around.
I disagree a bit with
dsrtao, who said, "Nothing significant happens to Ms. Cody in a year which she spends working as a stripper in Minneapolis. She's a slacker when she starts, and a slacker when she ends." I think something significant does happen to her, and it's not good. She's fairly clued-in to the kind of life it is and how she'll be treated in it even before she gets started at age 24, but the reality of it wears her down physically and emotionally, makes her jaded, creates an addiction to cigarettes, and exposes her to degredation and danger. She starts stripping for kicks, but by the end it's only about the money and what she needs to do and how she needs to look in order to make the big bucks. She moves on to being a peep-show girl (this section contains the only truly revolting and nauseating portion of the book in the description of one regular customer's behavior) and a phone-sex worker. In the end she returns to "a square job", but I think she hasn't been "freed" by her experiences, but rather had a somewhat cynical part of herself turn into something as hard and polished as a tumbled stone. Personally, I'd find that a heavy and unpleasant load to carry around.
