Belle paints prostitution as one more service job. What’s odd, though, is how few other women she encounters: no waitresses, no chambermaids, no female cabbies, few competing call girls. In her first book, Belle de Jour wrote of yearning for a career — politics? stocks? — where she’d be the only woman, the queen bee, among a crew of eligible attractive men. Now Showtime’s Belle is surrounded by men — barmen, custodians, taxi drivers — but she barely notices them. Hers is the age of lowered expectations. They also serve who only stand and wait.
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