What's the problem?
Posted on 12/04/2019 2:30:27 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
When you think of pole dancing, surely you do not think of it as a sport for young children rather than a sexually explicit activity that takes place in dark, seedy nightclubs. Apparently, this isn’t a ubiquitous option anymore, though.
In the U.K., controversy erupted from those who still consider pole dancing to be entirely inappropriate for children after three young girls did a demonstration on ITV’s This Morning in which they showed off the “skills” they’ve learned while attending Pole Intentions classes in Derbyshire and Nottinghamshire.
These classes are being defended by instructors and governing sports bodies alike, shockingly. Pole Intentions instructor, Zoe Hardy, claims the classes are about sport and are not sexual while the International Pole Sports Federation claims that these types of classes “help train future athletes,” according to a report by the BBC.
“Children are our future pole sports athletes and just like any sport we need to train our athletes from a young age,” a spokesperson for the International Pole Sports Federation said. The federation itself has been featuring children in the World Pole Sports Championships for the last three years and they also have a course dedicated to training children in the “sport” of pole dancing called the Youth Pole Sports Coaching course.
This is akin to Drag Queen Story Hours. We’re supposed to just believe there is nothing inappropriate about grown men dressed as women reading books to children just like we are supposed to just accept that pole dancing is a sport and there is nothing sexual about children participating! Yeah, right.
Instructor Zoe Hardy believes if adults “perceive the activity as being a sexual thing it is ‘in their own head,’” according to the BBC.
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PING!
The muzzards are going to win just because they have the courage of their vile belief system and a strongly developed in-group culture. The libs are too smart to figure this out.
What's the problem?
I only wish it were the Maypole. :-)
No problem if they are Poles
But something appears to be German
“International Pole Sports Federation”
Guessing we ain’t talking pole-vaulting and cross country skiing here.
I'm afraid to ask. Is Pole Dancing now an Olympic Sport? If not, why not? Right up there with Girls Beach Volleyball.
Gee whiz, I remember when we thought a gay Teletubby was as low as a children’s show could go.
Yeah, I noticed that too late.
The name “Steltzenhaus” appears in the background.
What’s wrong if they’re German?
Pole gymnastics can be quite strenuous.
Take a look at this lady. I am in awe of her strength and grace.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvw99pxpJsE
Leiderhosen and dirndls also.
Nothing wrong, but not Poles dancing
Jus sayin
It can simply be a form of gymnastics and strength training. In NYC in the 1960s, we had to do a lot of exercises shinnying up a large rope in the gym, hanging off it, trying to do other moves that were very similar, and using other gymnastics equipment for some of these moves. But there was nothing sexual about it. I think the problem is that pole-dancing is a sexualized version of basic gymnastic and strength moves using a rope or a pole, and it’s the sexualization part that is definitely not right.
Put it to music, fine, that helps people work beyond their limits and keep focused. But make sure it’s not the Bada Bing Room, or whatever that was in The Sopranos.
I think this story MIGHT be a bit of an overreaction to something that is basically innocent, but I don’t put anything past today’s LGBTQ freaks.
Pole dancing by children. How nice.
And to think my thread about perineal sunburn (yes, it’s real!) was kicked to the curb.
You and me both.
As a one-time gymnast (high school, 60’s) I am very impressed by this young lady’s routine. Pole or no pole, she has strength and grace; the pole just gives her a great way to demonstrate her control and ability.
Not sure I’d want her as a girlfriend, however. Looks like if you make one false move, she could break you in half. :-)
I’ve never seen a stripper work a pole (live), but I doubt it comes up to this high bar of talent.
In twenty years U.K. will be a Sharia sh*thole. The “Kingdom” is dying before our eyes.
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