Yes, “Scandal” is a fun name from Alysabeth’s Big List of Stripper Names. [name]Even[/name] though the website no longer exists, the complete list of names is still available through the Internet Archive. If anyone is interested, I can dig out the URL for y’all.
I don’t mind at all. It is [name]Crystal[/name]. When I was a child I liked my name until I grew up and found out about the stripper association. I actually think it is a fine name, although my personality is such that I think other names suit me better. But I like [name]Nephele[/name]'s way of looking at stripper names–the real low class people are those that put judgements on people based on their SES status or profession.[/quote]
I like [name]Crystal[/name], which (I think) began life as a Scottish boys’ name. It has a mystical side, as well as a pure side – as well as a stripper side.
I think “stripper” is only a facet of a name, and the wonderful thing about names is they have many facets. Any name, it seems to me, can have a “stripper” side – if worn the right way by the right woman. “[name]Bunny[/name]” can be a upper-class spoiled sorority girl as well as she can be a stripper. “[name]Bambi[/name]” can be a protected Mormon as well as she can be a stripper. (Mormons often give their children whimsical, romantic or invented names. I do know a Mormon [name]Bambi[/name].) “[name]Elizabeth[/name]” can be everywoman – or a stripper.
If you can get a copy of the original “Beyond [name]Jennifer[/name] & [name]Jason[/name],” it has a section on the names [name]Sydney[/name] Biddle Barrows, the “Mayflower Madam,” let her employees use. She wouldn’t let them work under “stripper” names – because it was sexier or more representative of her business style to use name like [name]Joanna[/name] or [name]Martha[/name] or [name]Abigail[/name]. In short, she saw these names as better stripper names than [name]Crystal[/name] or [name]Tiffany[/name] or [name]Flame[/name]!
namegoddess, are you asking me to anagram you a stripper name? That’s not a topic I would have thought to start for this board, but since you asked… Stripper names tend to be short, so I didn’t use all of the letters you gave me in your scramble. Here you go: [name]Tawny[/name] [name]Skye[/name]. Have fun!
[name]EDIT[/name]: Using your full scramble, I figure I can also give you a choice of two full stripper names.
Oh, dear, I read this wrong! Haha! I was looking for new anagram posts!
Well, thank you anyway, [name]Nephele[/name]. Sorry about the mix-up. [name]Tawny[/name] [name]Skye[/name] sounds quite appropriately stripper-esque, if I do say so myself.
I did a little research and found some names of actual strippers in my area. Some of them aren’t “stripper material” at all and some are really out there:
[name]Chloe[/name]
[name]Natalie[/name] (my real name, so it seems strange to see it on a stripper)
[name]Sophie[/name]
[name]Diamond[/name]
[name]Electra[/name] (or [name]Elektra[/name], not sure on spelling)
[name]Asia[/name]
[name]Anya[/name]
Passion
Panther (this gets my vote for weirdest one!)
Sorry to intrude on the discussion, but I wanted to let you know that I appreciate the plug, and that after a long, unpleasant hiatus feministstripper.com is back up and running. It got heisted by domain-squatters about 5 years ago when I neglected to renew on time. My own fault, I know, but still I manage to resent it.
I’ve run across a couple of your posts while researching what’s left of my web-presence. Thanks for remembering.
Sort of on-topic, I think it’s interesting, the derogatory name-categories we use to ridicule or dismiss people, like ‘low-class names’, or ‘stripper names’. I met a woman named [name]Rowena[/name] once and, delighted, commented on the origin of her name, which comes from Ivanhoe. She was surprised that I knew it. Later I related the encounter to someone else, and when I got to the woman’s name the person to whom I was speaking wrinkled up her nose, made a little ‘pfft’ noise and smirked about ‘those silly African-American names - [name]Rowena[/name], [name]Shaniqua[/name]…’. The [name]Rowena[/name] I had met did, in fact, happen to be African-American, but I don’t think that’s what this other person meant. Stereotypes are funny.
Anyway, pardon my interjection; I wouldn’t normally self-promote like this, but you don’t seem to have a way to contact you directly, which I totally understand. I’d love to get in contact with you if you’d like. You can Facebook meor find me on Twitter.
Alysabeth! It’s good to see you back again as a presence on the interwebs! And that was an excellent point you made about how people are sometimes too quick to dismiss others. Your “[name]Rowena[/name]” story especially made me laugh!
Names that have sexual connotations such as [name]Lolita[/name].
Names that are ‘spiritual’ virtue types because using them is ironic such as [name]Chastity[/name] or [name]Purity[/name].
Names denoting pleasure such as [name]Eden[/name] or [name]Bliss[/name]
Names that are overly sweet/cute, particularly that tend to end with a Y or an I are commonly used as stage names, like [name]Bambi[/name] or [name]Lexi[/name].
Names that are food names or liquor names such as [name]Candy[/name], [name]Cinnamon[/name] or [name]Brandy[/name], [name]Chardonnay[/name], etc
Names that are also names of luxury cars such as [name]Mercedes[/name] or [name]Lexus[/name].
Names that are also place names for cities tend to be popular like [name]Brooklyn[/name] or [name]Savannah[/name].
Names that are ‘sparkly’, such as [name]Diamond[/name]
And of course any name that was so widely and overly used it just ended up being associated with being low-rent like [name]Tiffany[/name] or [name]Amber[/name].