[Sue]

I’ve been friends with three or four dancers, and they’ve told me they always lie to their customers. Partly it’s a way of keeping their work life separate from their real life. But also, they told me, if a dancer tells a good story (one that portrays her as a nice middle-class college girl), the guy is less likely to feel guilty about what he’s doing and will therefore tip more. (It’s also reassuring: ‘College girl’ makes her sound clean and healthy and safe and therefore more desirable.) So lots of dancers lie and say they’re in school, have lots of money, come from a nice family etc., but it’s not necessarily true. In my experience, for what it’s worth, dancers are a diverse group. They come from all kinds of backgrounds. Some seem screwed up, some don’t. I’m just saying that the ones I know often lied as part of the job.

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[Sue]

He’s telling you the truth. I used to know a lot of skinheads; some were racist but lots were not. There’s a whole subset of skinheads who consider themselves really progressive/leftist/activist. Sometimes they’re vegetarian, or call themselves anarchists – and often, because people assume they’re racist, they put lots of energy into working for racial harmony (demonstrating and stuff). The working-class culture argument is true, too – that is where the subculture came from (in England), and that’s what’s alluded to by the heavy workboots and flight jackets and all. I think the guy you know might be trying to make some kind of statement such as ‘not all working-class people are racist.’

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