Crooked in Canada

Wow, is that exotic dancing dinosaur who filed an age discrimination complaint with Ontario Human Rights Tribunal doing a good job of stretching her 15 minutes of fame or what, but she isn’t doing it without any help.

Kimberlee has literally gone international folks, and I bet like former Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Kimberlee Ouwroulis is fielding a lot of lucrative offers, though I doubt they are as lucrative as the Alaskan hockey mom and governor.

I hope she has found herself an agent because the hype that has been created by Kimberlee, a few newspapers and television reports of her story, like the bit I saw on Fox’s  “Red Eye,” is probably going to pay off big time, so much so that if OHRT doesn’t dismiss her case, she might just drop the case herself so that she can focus more on pursuing some of the lucrative offers that have fallen into her lap since she first went public with her story. Trust me those offers are there now. Good on her.

I can’t say that I would blame her for putting those offers ahead of her lawsuit, after all it would be less of headache, and besides Kimberlee doesn’t strike me as the type of person who would put fighting for the rights of other strippers ahead of the fame and fortune that is knocking on her dressing room door.

By the way the Red Eye sound byte I heard asks should granny being doing lap dances (though Kimberlee isn’t a “granny”‘at least not to the best of my knowledge) and is she too old for the pole. Aren’t the folks at Red Eye witty?  While their report was amusing, they were merely having some fun at Kimberlee’s expense, and I’m sure she was insulted a lot more by their report than anything I have written in Crooked in Canada about her.  I’m sure the money her story is generating for her will help her get over it though.

I have no doubt in my mind that Kimberlee has already been approached by a porno movie producer or two, and a couple of skin magazine editors also, and at this very moment she is seriously considering committing to a project or two so that she can get out of the stripping business a lot sooner than she originally planned to.

In the mean time her current new employer and she are cashing in big time with all the publicity that has been surrounding her complaint. No doubt the club she is dancing in now is hopping. Business will be booming, but eventually the novelty will wear off.

Whatever happens to the legal side of Kimberlee’s story, you can bet that when she decides to cash in those offers that are pouring in for her by now, her 15 minutes of fame will either be extended to 70, maybe 80 minutes in a porno movie, and at the very least in a couple of monthly issues of a skin magazine, maybe a Hustler, Penthouse or Playboy spread, the latter of course being the most lucrative of the three photo spread options she would receive in my opinion, though a porno movie producer might pay her big bucks to appear in a few “monkey-spanking” scenes.

In the National Post article I read the other day she says that when the manager of the Mississauga strip club that allegedly fired her because of her age called her into his office, he sat her down and looked directly at her and said, “Your time is up here,” at which point she asked “Why? Is it because of my age?”  It doesn’t say in the National Post if he replied yes to her query, but in Red Eye’s report they said that he replied by saying that the club was going for a younger look and that he had already fired another “older” girl that same day.

Red Eye also says that upon hearing that response Kimberlee got up and left his office and headed straight for a lawyer.

I have to wonder if Kimberlee didn’t already know that she was going to be let go before she entered the office to face off with the club manager, and that she had an angle to work to ensure that she was going to be financially compensated in one way, shape or form.

I don’t believe she was surprised by her firing, in fact I think she was expecting it, only she didn’t know when it was going to happen.

I think she might have contacted the Ontario Human Rights Tribunal to discuss her options before she was fired, that she was prepared when she walked into the manager’s office. I think she might have even attempted to secretly record the conversation she had with the manager. It’s amazing what an MP3 can be used for these days.

I am also going to assume that the manager was smarter than he was given credit for on Red Eye, and that he never once mentioned that he was firing Kimberlee because of her age, or if he remotely even said anything like that, though if Kimberlee has a recording of the conversation she would prove me wrong.  For now I am going to assume he chose his words very carefully knowing full well the ramifications for him and his employer if he mentioned that she was being let go because she had grown too old for the job. Saying the club was going for a younger look or feel isn’t discriminatory by the way, it’s just good business for a strip club operator.

That said I will close out today’s Crooked in Canada entry with comments others have made about this story.

She looks absolutely fabulous to me!  Being a mature woman myself, many of us find great pleasure in taking care of ourselves and find just as much pleasure in the ‘feedback’ we receive.  Having the confidence that she obviously possesses is a turn-on to any man.  I’m certain she could be a perfect anchor for the younger girls coming up in the business- giving priceless insight and heartfelt advice, not to mention some time-honored moves and lines to keep the customers excited!-Colleen

I am a 50 year old black female and I am hard pressed to believe this lade is 44.  She looks at least 10 years older than I do.  So, I can see why a club might not want to have her dance.  We all know that strip clubs are about how young and good looking you are.  That is just the way it is.-Jaydee

Nothing says sexy like …belly breasts.-EdNigma

She does NOT look 60. If she looks ten years older than the poster who said she is 50, then that poster must LOOK 28 because Ms. Ouwroulis looks 38:TOPS.

Her makeup is flawless, I see no visable lines, and she dresses smartly with a real sexy but tasteful flair.

She’s a proud, confidant, radiant woman.

There’s a HUGE fan-base for mature ladies, thus the term MILF.

if  she doesn’t get accepted it in the Burlesque Industry, she’d do very well in tasteful adult films.Many who balk at this burlesque and adult film industry simultaniously partake in enjoying it incognito. Others are simply jealous or ageist people.

I hope she wins. Free speech. That’s how she can win. Freedom of expression and since she is  likely independant contractor anyhow, on what basis does owner have to discriminate or “fire” this (probably) non employee/freelancer??-DeniseLaF

Hmm… I’d do her.

(On an aside – I’m not even sure WHY this is going to the Human Rights Tribunal – she should just take her cheque and go elsewhere…like my apartment, maybe?)-donald.blair

Next she will want to do away with manditory retirement at sixty five. She might want to consider table dancing at a nursing home.-apophis

Memo to Kimberlee.

Guys do not go to strip clubs to watch dancers. They go to watch women strip. Thats the naked truth. I believe age discrimination in this case is a stretch of the imagination. Were the customers complaining? Did they applaud or boo her performances? There is more to this than meets the eye.-ZeeBC

The above comments courtesy of the National Post article I read, as brief as it was.

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