[quote]A NAZI-themed striptease being performed in Brisbane clubs has been slammed as "repulsive" by Queensland's Jewish community amid warnings it's becoming part of a trend towards shows glorifying the Third Reich.
The controversial burlesque show features a syringe-wielding, scantily-clad Nazi doctor with a swastika armband conducting scientific experiments on a pair of hooded girls.
Performed to a crowd of hundreds at the recent Dead of Winter festival at Brisbane's Jubilee Hotel, the show is the brainchild of burlesque artist and model Ali Darling, 24, who adapted it from a Rob Zombie short film.
Queensland Jewish Board of Deputies president Jason Steinberg said featuring swastikas and other Nazi iconography in a burlesque performance was disrespectful and repulsive.
"It is offensive to the Jewish community - also it would be offensive to the majority of Queenslanders," he said.
"It shouldn't be acceptable in this day and age for someone to use Nazi symbols in a way that glorifies that era."
He said there were still Holocaust survivors living in Queensland, and it was inappropriate for images from that era to be used in a burlesque show.
Ms Darling said she had been performing the show, entitled Werewolf Women of the SS, for about six months, and it had become one of her "signature acts".
"It's a pretty popular show and I will be expanding it because it's going to go into my stage production."
She said the show was satirical and highly stylised, and although she had "absolutely" had negative feedback about it, she'd had an equal number of people praising the performance.
"I get as many people loving it as hating it, which is fine with me. I like getting in people's faces," she said.
Ms Darling, who also has an act featuring a real pig's eye and another where she tears pages out of a Bible with her teeth and spits them at her audience, said she knew of a few other burlesque dancers with similar performances around Australia.
Brisbane cabaret performer Bertie Page said she had noticed a disturbing trend towards Nazi-themed burlesque shows.
"I've noticed it around the traps, it seems to be somewhat of a trend at the moment and I find it really quite concerning," she said.
Swastika-themed burlesque costuming has become available on the internet, and a recent film Burlesque Assassins features a group of dancers as Nazi-fighting killers.
Ms Page, who has German heritage, said she was worried such performances could give burlesque a bad name, and said the use of the swastika was an "indisputably terrible thing".
"The minute you put on that swastika you are representing a power that is bought at the expense of others' lives," she said.
Lola Montgomery, a performer who is completing a PhD in burlesque, said she did not think there was a trend towards Nazi-themed burlesque, and saw such performances more as isolated incidents.[/quote]
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Seriously? It's a fucking strip tease, not the Third Reich
we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything
That stripper's going to Heil for making those jews so fuhrious
[sp]sorry[/sp]
[QUOTE=LeonS;37759975]we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything[/QUOTE]
HOW DARE YOU!
I wonder what kind of auschwitz they wear.
[QUOTE=LeonS;37759975]we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything[/QUOTE]
i also think getting boners at nazi human experimentation is healthy and normal and nothing to be upset by. let's start a club
[QUOTE=LeonS;37759975]we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything[/QUOTE]
I am very offended by that, your avatar offends the African American community, your username is insensitive to animal rights and your use of gendered insults is offensive to the LGBTQ community.
Also your use of the word "fuck" insults the Facepunch Virgin Union.
nah i reckon that's actually pretty poor taste, given some of the horrific atrocities visited on prisoners by nazi scientists
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[QUOTE=Wiggles;37759994]I wonder what kind of auschwitz they wear.[/QUOTE]
took me a few minutes
It's in bad taste but so is Andres Serrano. If they're into edgy shit then who cares?
Not like it empowers anything that them fearing it like the plague doesn't already do.
hot
[QUOTE=a-cookie;37760096]hot[/QUOTE]
A show hotter than their ovens!
[QUOTE=LeonS;37759975]we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything[/QUOTE]
Insult people for getting insulted, and then tell them how insulted you feel as a result.
[QUOTE=BANNED USER;37760367]Insult people for getting insulted, and then tell them how insulted you feel as a result.[/QUOTE]
And then insult a person for insulting people who feel insulted.
[QUOTE=DinoJesus;37760489]And then insult a person for insulting people who feel insulted.[/QUOTE]
Sultseption
[QUOTE=LeonS;37759975]we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything[/QUOTE]
strong avatar to post ratio
[QUOTE=LeonS;37759975]we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything[/QUOTE]
I'm glad that we have you, a person with a "nigger alarm" avatar, to tell us what we can and can not be offended by
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because you're clearly an authority on the matter
[QUOTE=Dori;37760705]I'm glad that we have you, a person with a "nigger alarm" avatar, to tell us what we can and can not be offended by
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because you're clearly an authority on the matter[/QUOTE]
funny how you proved his point
[QUOTE=Amez;37760746]funny how you proved his point[/QUOTE]
what is his point? he has nothing to be offended by, therefore nobody else should?
[QUOTE=Dori;37760815]what is his point? he has nothing to be offended by, therefore nobody else should?[/QUOTE]
You're offended simply by him saying you shouldn't be offended that easily. How's that for proving a point.
[QUOTE=mobrockers2;37760829]You're offended simply by him saying you shouldn't be offended that easily. How's that for proving a point.[/QUOTE]
a jew has every right to be offended by the glorification of the nazi regime
I think everyone who's not a complete fuck has every right to feel offended by the glorification of nazis. jews most of all
[QUOTE=Dori;37760843]a jew has every right to be offended by the glorification of the nazi regime[/QUOTE]
It's a themed striptease show, it's not like they're making Hitler memorials. I can hardly call that "glorification"
[QUOTE=LeonS;37759975]we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything[/QUOTE]
[IMG]http://facepunch.com/image.php?u=86718&dateline=1298931118[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;37761253]It's a themed striptease show, it's not like they're making Hitler memorials. I can hardly call that "glorification"[/QUOTE]
no one cares what you would call it. you're not an affected party
they are making light of a regime which committed racial cleansing
[QUOTE=Dori;37761262]no one cares what you would call it. you're not an affected party
they are making light of a regime which committed racial cleansing[/QUOTE]
This is just harmless entertainment, and even if it WAS fascist holocaust hitler nazi propaganda like you think it is, I would still defend it, because freedom of expression was still a thing last time I checked
[QUOTE=Laserbeams;37761348]This is just harmless entertainment, and even if it WAS fascist holocaust hitler nazi propaganda like you think it is, I would still defend it, because freedom of expression was still a thing last time I checked[/QUOTE]
so I take it that you would defend minstrel shows?
[QUOTE=Dori;37761366]so I take it that you would defend minstrel shows?[/QUOTE]
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man]woah bro this argument sounds familiar[/url]
[QUOTE=LeonS;37759975]we live in such a fucking pussified world
everyones insulted by everything[/QUOTE]
Please...Your avatar offends me...
[QUOTE=Dori;37761366]so I take it that you would defend minstrel shows?[/QUOTE]
Honestly-... I would.
I mean, I wouldn't watch it, and I doubt anyone else would watch it, but if someone wants to go on stage in blackface and do shit like that, I don't see why they shouldn't be able to. It'd be in horrendously poor taste, it'd get barely any audience aside from people coming to see the controversy, but hey; if it floats your boat, then by all means, keep floatin', skipper.
[QUOTE=Dori;37761366]so I take it that you would defend minstrel shows?[/QUOTE]
I know right fuck freedom!
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