Live Nude Girls Unite
Before I went to class on October 31,2007 I have to admit, I had a completely different idea of what the film Live Nude Girls Unite would be like. Just from the title of this film I was picturing strippers on a stage infront of old, drooling, married men, just there to gain pleasure (and the strippers high on multiple types of drugs). However the film really wasn't like that at all. I thought it was done very classy and in a very mature manner, but most importantly depicted real life/job struggles. The film was truely about a union and I'm happy to say that pleased me. Before this documentary I had different ideas about what it was that strippers were like or what they represented. I guess I have lived kind of a shettled life, but I have never known a stripper or been to a strip club, so I had this idea (ignorant) that strippers were usually uneducated, easy, and drug users. On the other hand, this film had strippers that were very educated and determined, which made me think "Wow!! I was wrong." These women were determined for all the right reasons and now I have a whole new idea, and respect for the sex industry in a sense. I no longer think these women as uneducated or easy, but just out making a living like everyone else. I'm very thankful we screened this film in class because I feel like I learned something from it and something about myself (that sometimes I'm too quick to judge others and I should probably evaluated where I gain my knowledge from before I apply it to a whole working class of individuals).