^ you’re making my point better than I am. To argue that stripping is not a healthy profession is stupid. I realize that is not necessarily your position, but it is stupid none-the-less. If anyone is going to argue that strippers need to be licensensed and display their real names because they are employed in an unhealthy profession, he likely needs to look at actors as well. Unless TX lawmakers have some special database on strippers, I don’t think they have anything other than anecdotal evidence either.
I never made that argument, I said it was the law makers argument and hence their reason for not singling out actors. I just went after the low hanging fruit that acting is an unhealthy profession, this from a bunch of people who sit in front of computer monitors pumping out radition and ruining their eyes and fitness 10 hours a day (us). Anyhow, I can’t debate your experience with stripper friends, but mine has been the opposite with virtually every one of them having lives devolve into drugs and abuse.
Anyhow, actors already have their names clearly posted at the end of films
We tend to be a bit more uptight about sex here in the US than the rest of the world.
Which is ironic because the rest of the world thinks the US is some sort of orgy-and-drug filled bastion of human depravity.
They have their stage names at the end of films. When’s the last time you heard anything about Carlos Irwin Estevez, Allen Stewart Konigsberg, Issur Danielovitch Demsky, or Marion Michael Morrison?
Uptight in public but depraved in private. Hypocritical, in summary
Unless in California
Marion Mitchell Morrison aka John Wayne, the uber macho American cowboy with a French girl’s first name (e.g. Marion Cottilard)
That’s increasinglyless common though, and pretty much all of those actors stated it was done because at the time people with white sounding names got better work.
Except Estevez, all other names sound white enough. Don’t think it was white / non-white thing. If anything, It was a case of how ‘American’ the names sounded. No wonder these actors with European names had to simplify and adopt names like John, Paul, Tom, Joe, Bill etc.
Actors also choose other names because their given name is already registered with SAG. Emma Stone for example, is named Emily but Emily Stone was already taken. Slight example, but it happens all the time.
Anyway, what difference does it make? They all have to use their real name to get paid. The IRS doesn’t take kindly to aliases. There shouldn’t be any requirement that anyone - no matter their profession - be made to wear papers at all times though. That’s a bit too 1938 Germany for my tastes.
Seems like the congressman just wants to be able to track down his favorite girl.
Other than not wanting to sound like a sissy (ala John Wayne), most screen names are a result of joining SAG, which does not allow more than one member with the same name.
I’m one minute smarter than you.
But a certain gun-loving boardmember is the smartest
I saw that and considered removing my post, but I’m okay with the silver.
Going ad hominem into other threads? Lol, I’ll accept your concession.
Phew… My life is meaningful again… LMAO
Short RICK long GS (of course due to their investment in the village voice)
The assumption in the proposed law is that strippers use fake names because of shame. By requiring strippers to reveal their true names, the politician guy is trying to implement a “shame tax”, which like other taxes, would decrease the level of activity in that business.
Of course, strippers also use fake names for other reasons, like safety or marketability. These might or might not have been considered in the proposed law.