Mankato Memoirs: Nikki

Nikki was a Mettler's dancer who will not be doxxed here.

Nikki was a young woman from Omaha, who spoke in an urban vernacular dialect. While she was very fair skinned, with light eyes and a mother named Becky, Nikki expressed her hatred for white people each night that I worked with her. She identified as “Mexican and Israeli.” Due to her hatred for white people who she doesn't know personally, Nikki was quite mean to me in the beginning of my time at Mettler's, and made a false assumption, for reasons unbeknownst to me, that I have a trust fund. Nikki created a mental disorder that she called “White People Syndrome,” which she described as tendency for white people to recklessly go about life with no consideration for other people around them. She was the dancer who Brody Christensen lied to by telling her he is Jewish, in an attempt to trick her into having sexual relations with him.

Nikki drank heavily at work. Because of her DWI record, she had her license revoked and sometimes had problems getting around without a car. She regularly expressed her anger that the system took away her individual liberties by not allowing her to drive drunk.

One thing I really liked about Nikki was her tendency to beat men who touched her without her consent in the workplace. She was often at odds with management about defending herself against sexual predators and assaults. Every instance I ever witnessed between her and a customer gave her justification to physically defend herself, but for whatever reason, management came down very hard on Nikki about these issues in ways that I found to be unfair. As a result, she sometimes had to creatively hide the fact that she defended herself. She has very voluminous, long, curly auburn hair, and would use her hair as a visual shield so Woody couldn't see her pummeling men who tried to touch her. For whatever reason, Nikki often had to become argumentative with Woody before he removed a customer for her, in a way that other dancers did not have had to deal with if they wanted him to remove someone. Nikki often criticized Woody for his flirtatious behaviors, and described his actions as “swinging his dick.” Despite our differences, I thought Nikki was a brave person, and someone who might be interested in stripper rights. We eventually became work friends.

After I left Mettler's, I kept in contact with Nikki. She was fired not too long after I quit, for allegedly physically harming dancer Nicole Lemma. Nikki expressed interest in joining the suit if it was to become a class action. It is possible she would have joined, if it didn't resolve.