Christina Ricci criticises actresses who want to play strippers

Christina Ricci has criticised her Hollywood contemporaries for glamorising stripping and pole dancing through film roles and their antics on nights out.

Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Alba have both recently played strippers on film (in I Know Who Killed Me and Sin City respectively) while Lindsay and fellow party-girl Paris Hilton are frequently spotted entertaining their men friends with pole and lap-dancing routines on nights out.

Christina said recently: “It used to be something that we [women] were sort of ashamed of. You didn’t want to admit to people that you were a stripper.”

“But now, the hottest thing to say is ‘I can work a pole!’ Who gives a f***? But it’s a huge weird thing.”

“I mean, you see actresses, and their passion project is to play a stripper. It’s just stupid.”

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God her hair looks amazing! Brightens up her whole face. I know hair isn’t the issue here but damn!

Oh and I totally agree by the way.

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What a hypocrite. She cries about the objectification of women, but how many millions do you suppose she’s made because of how she looks? Think she would have even gotten started in showbusiness if that first director or casting agent didn’t like the way she looked? Why is it ok for her to profit from her appearance, but if a stripper does it, they should be ashamed?

And why is the focus on strippers? Spokesmodels and print models are hired and used solely on their appearance just as much as strippers, and generally for the same reason, to illicit a poisitive response based on physical attractiveness, so why is the lady modelling a sweater on page 3 of the JC Penny’s catalog not being singled out? Is she not equally objectified? She’s a pretty shape to sell a product. She’s an object. But if a woman decides to be a stripper, to explore her sexuality, to exert a power over men, AND to make a grip of money doing it, she’s supposed to be ashamed? Screw that.

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