1/11/2024 0 Comments Deja vu ypsilanti reviewsI wish the dancers would band together and form a union but I’m doubtful that could ever happen for many reasons. I don’t even understand how that’s legal but it’s still going on. He came up with the brilliant idea of making the dancers pay HIM to work in the clubs. Then this creep came along and changed all of that. Lap dances hadn’t come into vogue, yet (thank the gods). When I was dancing in Metro Detroit clubs in the early 80’s, the dancers were actually paid an hourly rate. Do I wish that women would band together and realize the power that the have and actually run this industry themselves? Hell yeah. He wants to “respect” them by taking a a source of legal income away from them. Look, these are grown-ass women and they’re doing what they want to do and probably making decent amount of money doing it. There are SO many feels that I have about this but I don’t want to go into all of them. I’ve never met him and I’m impressed with his tutoring work but this IS some patriarchal bullshit. It seems to me that, sooner or later, the owners of Deja Vu might want to move a little further down Michigan Avenue to a town with better demographics and fewer people staring in judgement at their patrons.Īs a former stripper/topless dancer (we’re talking waaaay back, in the seventies), I can give you my view on this. I don’t know if that model works so well when the plants are gone and a family-friendly restaurant like Beezy’s is across the street, though. When the auto plants were in Ypsi, and the downtown was dead, it probably made good economic sense. Is it time for a coordinated campaign to get Deja Vu out of downtown?Īlso, regardless of how they may or may not treat women at Deja Vu, my sense is that their model may not work for much longer in Ypsi. I’m curious where the rest of you stand on this. In fact, I’ve often thought that, if such a place existed, I’d frequent a club that featured women in powered wigs stripping to harpsichord music. In other words, I don’t think I’d go so far as to say all strip clubs are, by their very nature, bad. At least I’ve heard in the past that strip clubs in the Portland area, for instance, are often owned and operated by women, which I think, from the perspective of a nude entertainer, would be preferable. With that said, though, my sense is that there are other strip joints in the world that are significantly more friendly to women. I understand from some folks in town that they’re good neighbors, and they police the activities of their patrons pretty well, but, all things being equal, I’d rather have a real theater downtown than a strip joint owned by a friend of Larry Flynt’s where, as I’ve said in the past, “men sip fruit juice and stare sadly into the orifices of coeds.” At the same time, though, I’m not terribly keen on the idea of shutting businesses down, as I value the first amendment and appreciate the right of consenting adults to do what they like behind closed doors. Personally, I don’t like Deja Vu all that much. Well, as it’s been a while since we’ve talked about the local sex trade in all it’s various forms, I thought that this might be a good opportunity. At least that’s what it looks like to me, given the fact that he’s publicly reached out to several individuals currently running for elected office in Ypsilanti, asking that they “ban strip clubs from Ypsi’s city limits,” followed by the hashtag #WhatWouldMarthaWashingtonDo… a reference to the fact that the building in question, long before it was a strip joint, was the Martha Washington Theater. ( See his written warning from the officer below.) He and I have yet to have an opportunity to speak about it in person, but it would seem as though, based on what he’s shared online, that he’s initiating a campaign to have the Washington Street club shut down. Apparently no photographic proof exists, but an acquaintance of mine was issued a written warning by Ypsilanti police yesterday after writing “Ypsilanti respects women” and “Ypsilanti doesn’t need a strip club” in liquid chalk on the facade of our local all-nude strip joint, Deja Vu.
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