Bruno

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1. 
   ronald

   January 21, 2017 at 1:01 pm | #

   Has she considered getting an office job at the strip club? I’ve never been to one but I’d imagine that, like any other business, there’s a lot of paperwork behind the scenes. Payroll, supply purchases, employee reviews, renovations (stages don’t wax and re-finish themselves, y’know), and so much on. For all we (well, I) know, the strip club is part of a nationwide chain which employs THOUSANDS of people. Behind most jobs, there’s a whole bunch of desks. ;-)

   ***

   On a separate note, in a strip some months ago, Bruno and pals seemed be discussing, among other things, vibrators (that’s my first guess as to what the batteries reference meant, anyway). Which made me realize: The sex toy industry provides men with full-size blow-up “dolls” to, uh, substitute for women during the sexual act, but apparently all women need as the equivalent is a vibrator, basically an artificial penis.

   Implying that IN GENERAL men want the whole package while women just want the package. (heh, see what I did there?)

   Hungarian author Frigyes Karinthy’s novel “Capillaria” demonstrates that this supposed dichotomy in male and female “needs” (I personally don’t consider sex to be a “need” like food or sleep but that’s not the point right now) dates back to at least 1921. Look it up. Or not, that’ll work too. :-)

   I discovered another, visual variation on this parallel on the internet but it’d be so humiliating to elaborate…
2. 
   Christopher

   January 21, 2017 at 1:21 pm | #

   Unless it’s a big club, I think the supervisor takes care of most of that, which would be the woman who hired her. And I’m not sure Bruno would take a job seriously enough to reach that level of management.
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   Studies have leaned towards men being more visually stimulated than women (although there is debate on that in how much is nature v nurture). Might be relevant.
3. 
   ronald

   January 21, 2017 at 2:03 pm | #

   Well, women don’t buy vibrators to LOOK at them…

   ;-)

   The supposed deal is that “instinctively,” women focus on men’s faces to try to gauge their character (and thus determine if they’re likely to be faithful and to “protect” the women and their children) while men focus on women’s bodies to gauge their suitability for childbearing. SUPPOSED.

   Human civilization has of course long since left behind (yet not all that long ago, not all that far behind) the societal model where the men hunted-gathered and the women kept the cave fires going, but if it’s “instinctive,” its “usefulness” in contemporary society is unimportant.

   Or as an incidental character on an episode of Law & Order once noted: “Women want a lot of things from one man, men want one thing from a lot of women.”

   It’s possibly significant that lesbians frequently trim their hair extra short and eschew makeup, thereby emphasizing their faces, while gay men, well, peruse any selection of books marketed for gay male audiences and see how many you DON’T find without near-nude men on the covers. ;-) In contrast, you don’t see much “cheesecake” on books marketed for lesbian audiences.

   Thus women again focus on faces (of other women) and men again focus on bodies (of other men). Women –> faces: Men’s faces or women’s faces, same difference.. Men –> bodies: Women’s bodies or men’s bodies, same difference. So that’s something. Of course, you can say that about anything.

   Of course, the fact that vibrators substitute not for the male face (which is supposedly what [straight] women focus on) but for the male GENITALS is…

   “Hey, got a match?”
   “Yeah, your face and my…”

   ;-)
4. 
   Peter Rogan

   January 22, 2017 at 12:12 am | #

   Robert Heinlein, writing as his character Lazarus Long, opined: “Women have so much of what men have none of.” There’s more going on here than physical attraction, or sexual gratification. What people seem to do is forget that, and blame their lack of success, or a member of their gender’s lack of success, or even a member of the opposite gender’s lack of success, on some physical failing or just general emotional and intellectual universal incapability. Thereby allowing them to project the problem far, far from themselves.

   Unless they’re hopelessly juvenile, men find there’s much more they want from women than just sex. If they’re lucky; as women have known since before the dawn of recorded time, men seem not to know what they really want, but they’re eager to blame somebody else for their confusion. And women put up with a very great deal of bullshit from men to get the things they generally know they want from men — companionship, friendship, a connection that’s emotional, even intellectual, at least a few times a week. I have always thought the forbearance of women in pursuit of these elusive male qualities is far, far beyond my poor ability to replicate. No can match.

   The public dialog — if it’s that; it’s more like a two-sided propaganda barrage — continues to not progress, but privately men and women can make an understanding of what they want and need from each other, and provide what the other needs, and try not to be too demanding. But it’s always an individual struggle, paradoxically; you can talk to your friends, your therapist, your mother, your father, but ultimately you have to be the one to find out what is needed, what’s not needed, and put in the effort to be helpful and nurturing, and not to “always be that way”. You CAN win. It’s hard, but I promise you all, it IS worth it.