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I mean, there\u2019s really not a whole lot I can really add to that.\u00a0 There was in fact, a stripper pole inside the dealers\u2019 room at Otakon.<\/span><\/p>\n Looking at the writing on the base of the pole stand, it\u2019s marked something about \u201cpole fitness,\u201d and I don\u2019t deny for a second that it takes a tremendous amount of physical exertion and training to be able to work a stripper pole like well, a stripper, but I\u2019m not sure who this dealer thinks they\u2019re kidding when they\u2019re displaying a stripper pole in a merchants\u2019 exhibitor hall.<\/span><\/p>\n When I saw this, my jaw kind of lowered half an inch.\u00a0 I know Otakon has grown to massive proportions and being so big, they\u2019re exposed to a ton more merchants who want to peddle and market their goods at the convention.\u00a0 The presence of obvious booth babes was no surprise, given how big the convention has grown and the cheap tactics some dealers will employ to get customers to them instead their competitors, but when I saw a place marketing stripper poles, complete with hired Panty & Stocking cosplayers to parade around the display model, I was kind like \u201cwow.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Honestly, I don\u2019t really know what to think.\u00a0 Not that I\u2019m some authority on decency or anything, but I can\u2019t help but think the whole thing is tacky and kind of inappropriate.\u00a0 It\u2019s minutely amusing, but I kind of wonder what goes on through the heads of the numerous parents who were roped into being at Otakon with their kids; I\u2019m sure the dads were thrilled, but conservative parents probably had aneurisms when they saw a stripper pole in the dealers\u2019 room.<\/span><\/p>\n I guess in the end, this is another one of those \u201cI guess I done got too old\u201d moments.\u00a0 I remember Otakons, and conventions in general of the past, having dealers\u2019 rooms where people banked on having the rare items, the things they couldn\u2019t find anywhere online from the 13 official dealers listed on Anipike or had ads in Animerica.\u00a0 The advent of the internet has easily changed that landscape, turning today\u2019s dealers\u2019 rooms into glorified show rooms for people to look for what they want, and then hunt for it online at a better price.<\/span><\/p>\n And now we got stripper poles and booth babes all over the fuckin\u2019 place.\u00a0 Ahh, how the times have changed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I mean, there\u2019s really not a whole lot I can really add to that.\u00a0 There was in fact, a stripper pole inside the dealers\u2019 room at Otakon. Looking at the writing on the base of the pole stand, it\u2019s marked something about \u201cpole fitness,\u201d and I don\u2019t deny for a second that it takes a … Continue reading Yes, there was a stripper pole in the dealers\u2019 room<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[128,15,133,49],"class_list":["post-33733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-conventions","tag-og","tag-old-man","tag-wtf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33733"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33734,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33733\/revisions\/33734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}