Superficiality? At a Maxim Superbowl party? How is that not a front page story?

Man, next thing you know there'll be a lot of movie insider asskissing at a hollywood Oscar party.

She seems pretty good at that. But nobody can be expected to have sympathy for a woman who went to work as a stripper at a Maxim party and wound up feeling like a piece of meat. That's in the job description, toots.

Stick to writing.

She seems pretty good at that. But nobody can be expected to have sympathy for a woman who went to work as a stripper at a Maxim party and wound up feeling like a piece of meat. That's in the job description, toots.

-- johnfairfax

Well, thank you JohnFairfax, for showing us all that nastiness and sexist putdowns are not only limited to Maxim. No matter what job someone chooses have, she deserves to be able to work in mental and physical safety be she a stripper or be she a CEO--and saying someone doesn't deserve sympathy because of their job is really quite crass.

I've discussed this with others online and have met with mindsets ranging from "Why write? Maxim will just make fun of you." to "They can do what they want, what do you expect from Maxim?" Yes, Maxim can do what they want. However, when it comes down to it, we should also be free to call them on their behavior. I for one look forward to the day when the typical lad magazine does open up to other kinds of beauty; however, that day isn't going to get here unless we say something and call them on what isn't fair to labor or to, dare I say, beauty standards.

All best,

Jessica Melusine

Is that party entertainers are contracted for work JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE. When a client breaks that contract, you don't get paid, and you have also perhaps lost another potential job somewhere else because you were wasting your time at this other function.

I used to be a stripper, and I still do club/gogo stuff sometimes. Let me assure you, we can smell your type from a mile away, and the only girls that approach guys like you are the ones that have no respect for themselves. The good ones, the ones with the sexy minds AND bods, would avoid judgemental men like you like the plague.

Miss Klein is to be applauded for taking the sting out of her rejection with humor. Kudos!

I'm not sure I've ever read a less whiny piece of writing.

Thank god somebody has started writing response to this troll.h

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She's cute!

Let me assure you, we can smell your type from a mile away, and the only girls that approach guys like you are the ones that have no respect for themselves. The good ones, the ones with the sexy minds AND bods, would avoid judgemental men like you like the plague.

-- mmeetoilenoir

REPLY: I don't know what my type is, but you couldn't smell me a mile away. For one thing, I bathe quite regularly. For another, I don't patronize strip clubs. My wife has a great mind and a great body and she doesn't avoid me at all. Well, not most days.

Best of luck with your career.

It was a stripper costume; no mention was made that she was to perform as a stripper. She was hired as a dancer. It amazes me how often respondents gravitate toward the, shall we say, more lurid and salacious words in an article ["Stripper costume"], and miss completely the original content. Read carefully, like you did on the SAT.

Personally, I'm not enthralled with stripping and sex work, but all this sniping kind of misses the point. Maxim is apparently assuming that all men are either closet ghouls who secretly lust after famine victims, latent homosexuals who like women who look like men with breasts, or pedophiles who like teenage boys, if a woman is too "voluptuous," at 5'6 and 145 pounds, to meet their exotic dancer standards. A lot of men--including the one I married--very much appreciate soft female curves, which it appears the writer probably has, in rather reasonable amounts.

Weren't Marilyn Monroe's measurements in that vicinity? Or think of Rita Moreno in West Side Story, what sensual grace she had, and my god, she had curves. If it's really true that a majority of men have somehow been convinced that this is fat and unattractive and that anorexic bags of bones are ideal fantasy women, it's at least half as much a pity for them as for the women who starve and loathe themselves to please them.

Look through a Maxim magazine. Do any of those women look like they weigh 145 pounds? No. So is it surprising that they wouldn't want to hire women that size at a Maxim Superbowl party? Not at all.

Quite honestly, the only thing that surprises me is that they did hire Ms. Klein, and then turned her away later. Seems a bit odd. But while I am definitely not saying that her size is fat (far from it), I am mystified by why she seems so shocked and offended to have been turned down. Why was she doing this in the first place? And if they had accepted her, would she have had a more positive evaluation of the party?

Sorry, but I just don't get why you'd want to be a go-go dancer at a Maxim party, how it could be anything but superficial and cheesy. To be surprised at that would be like taking a job as a pig farmer and complaining that it's dirty.

Would it be nice if the women in lad mags had more realistic women in them? Sure, but I wouldn't hold my breath. And I wouldn't think that all of the chastising and complaining in the world is going to change things.