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Päivi S.
Last Friday I shared some pole dancing comics that didn't draw on the strip club history of pole dancing. Here are some of the funniest that do:
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Cirque du Soleil's Michael Jackson the Immortal World Tour
Don't miss your change to see breathtaking pole dancing in Helsinki
Steven Retchless's TRIXXX workshop at Vertical Club
The most famous male pole dancer in the world came to Helsinki to teach us his TRIXXX
Anastasia Shukhtorova's workshops at Pole4Fit
The ever-so-lovely Anastasia Shukhtorova held two exclusive workshops at Pole4Fit Helsinki
Showing posts with label pole dancing vs strippers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label pole dancing vs strippers. Show all posts
2012/05/12
2012/04/19
Ladies please! Try not to annoy men so much.
I previously wrote about the unavoidable "so you're a stripper?" issue and was happy to conclude that these misconceptions don't seem to be a problem here in Scandinavia. Recently I've read quite a few other pole dancing blogs and it seems that my fellow pole dancers in other parts of the world don't have it so easy. Maybe wearing high heels on the pole has something to do with it, maybe other countries have more skilled striptease artists than Finland, I don't know. One thing I know is that no matter what sport women decide to do, certain type of men always have something to say about it.
"Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. She entered and completed the race in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. She registered under the gender-neutral ‘K. V. Switzer’. Race official Jock Semple attempted to remove her from the race, and is noted to have shouted, ‘Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.’ However, Switzer’s boyfriend, who was running with her, shoved Semple aside and sent him flying. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines.” (source)
Zhang Shan, shown here at the 2005 10th National Games in China, was the first woman to win Olympic Gold in a mixed-gender shooting event, in 1992. Then 24-year-old Shan won Gold in a mixed-gender Skeet shooting event, becoming the first woman ever to win a shooting event that included both men and women. After this, the International Shooting Union made a ruling which barred women from shooting against men. (source) I hardly have to speculate here why this ruling was made.
My point is this: Keep on rocking the poles, ladies! Strippers do it, circus artists do it, you can be both or neither. Some men will never be happy with whatever it is that women decide to do. As for the women who judge you: Ask them to join you for a lesson. You know they'll be hooked.
Tankotanssiblogeja lukiessa olen huomannut, että kaikkialla maailmassa ei olla yhtä suvaitsevaisia tankotanssin suhteen kuin Suomessa. Toisaalta, kivinen on ollut naismaratoonareiden ja kilpa-ampujienkin tie...
"Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as a numbered entry. She entered and completed the race in 1967, five years before women were officially allowed to compete in it. She registered under the gender-neutral ‘K. V. Switzer’. Race official Jock Semple attempted to remove her from the race, and is noted to have shouted, ‘Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers.’ However, Switzer’s boyfriend, who was running with her, shoved Semple aside and sent him flying. The photographs taken of the incident made world headlines.” (source)
Zhang Shan, shown here at the 2005 10th National Games in China, was the first woman to win Olympic Gold in a mixed-gender shooting event, in 1992. Then 24-year-old Shan won Gold in a mixed-gender Skeet shooting event, becoming the first woman ever to win a shooting event that included both men and women. After this, the International Shooting Union made a ruling which barred women from shooting against men. (source) I hardly have to speculate here why this ruling was made.
My point is this: Keep on rocking the poles, ladies! Strippers do it, circus artists do it, you can be both or neither. Some men will never be happy with whatever it is that women decide to do. As for the women who judge you: Ask them to join you for a lesson. You know they'll be hooked.
Tankotanssiblogeja lukiessa olen huomannut, että kaikkialla maailmassa ei olla yhtä suvaitsevaisia tankotanssin suhteen kuin Suomessa. Toisaalta, kivinen on ollut naismaratoonareiden ja kilpa-ampujienkin tie...
2012/03/27
"Pole dancing, huh? You must get a lot of 'oh so you're a stripper' -comments?"
I've been pole dancing for two years, and so far not a single person has mistaken me for a stripper. However, I've lost count how often I've heard "Pole dancing, huh? You must get a lot of 'oh so you're a stripper' -comments?" Basically what these people are saying is "I'm so civilized that I know pole dancing is a sport but I bet there are a lot of people that are less civilized than me". Without meaning to question anyone's level of sophistication: No, there aren't. Not here in Helsinki, anyway.
You would have had to live under a rock for the past two years in Finland to have missed Oona Kivelä's numerous appearances in magazines, newspapers, TV and radio and Henriikka Roo's performance's in Finland's Got Talent - She made it all the way to the final. And even if they had missed all that, people don't just randomly think that an educated professional all of a sudden starts working as a stripper and, moreover, enthuses about it over coffee. I'm glad you, Mr./Ms. Civilized realize it's a sport, but so does everybody else. Sure, strippers do pole dance, but so do managing directors. That doesn't make managing directors strippers nor strippers MDs.
What I actually get a lot is "Whoa, I know it's really good exercise, I've been wanting to try it for quite some time but haven't had the nerve. Where can I try it?"
End of idiotic stripper discussion.
Kahden vuoden tankotanssikokemukseni mukaan tankotanssijoita, ainakaan allekirjoittanutta, ei todellakaan enää sekoiteta strippareihin, vaikka monet niin luulevatkin.
You would have had to live under a rock for the past two years in Finland to have missed Oona Kivelä's numerous appearances in magazines, newspapers, TV and radio and Henriikka Roo's performance's in Finland's Got Talent - She made it all the way to the final. And even if they had missed all that, people don't just randomly think that an educated professional all of a sudden starts working as a stripper and, moreover, enthuses about it over coffee. I'm glad you, Mr./Ms. Civilized realize it's a sport, but so does everybody else. Sure, strippers do pole dance, but so do managing directors. That doesn't make managing directors strippers nor strippers MDs.
What I actually get a lot is "Whoa, I know it's really good exercise, I've been wanting to try it for quite some time but haven't had the nerve. Where can I try it?"
End of idiotic stripper discussion.
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