BTW, isn’t she, uh, kind of doing to these PAYING CUSTOMERS exactly what some people do to strippers (to, in fact, virtually all women)? Making unwarranted presumptions for the worst? Kind of like that guy who out of nowhere called her a “f*cking b|tch”?

Tips are the backbone of allowing waitresses to earn a living (unless “Reservoir Dogs” was wrong about that), I’d think they’d be nearly as important to strippers, and she’s scoffing at one. But what do I, as ever, know?

I’ve heard that some guys fall in what they think is love with strippers (who am I to judge?) and sincerely try to “rescue” them from their “sordid world.” I mean, obviously, arrogant and dismissive of the woman’s actual feelings, but at least it’s from the heart instead of the adjacent. Just a variation of “waiting to be rescued by Prince Charming”; Prince Charming is waiting for a “damsel in distress” TO rescue. I have no idea if that’s anywhere in the future in the strip, of course.