~ Blue Jays ~
Posted on 10/21/2006 4:34:41 PM PDT by Pokey78
Of all I survey....
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As a parent, I can witness that this dancing is way, way over the line.
I chaperoned one dance when my daughter was in 7th grade. She hasn't gone to a school dance since. Not only because I won't let her, but also because she has no desire to.
These kids are simulating sex. Nothing less. The boys walk around with obvious erections due to rubbing their crotch against thier dance partners, and the sad thing is...they are proud of it. Remember when young men would have been horribly embarrassed and humiliated for someone to see they had a "reaction" from dancing with a girl?
I kept telling this one kid who was very agressively dancing with his date, that he was to stop dancing that way. He kept it up. The 3rd time I tapped him on the shoulder, he was so caught up in what he was doing that he immediately raised his fist to hit me. The principal ran over, grabbed the kid by the shirt and threw him out.
I hate to be graphic, but we're all adults here. The way the kid was pouring sweat, the expression on his face - and his aggressive response at being interrupted, was chilling. He was in a sexual trance. I was reminded of the reaction I got once when I tried to pull a pillow away from our dog when he was "making whoopee" with it. Pure instinctive aggression.
I'm not sure what the answer to this is.
I'm obviously a Conservative, but I love to dance.
From the "swim" in the 60s, to the disco dances of the 70s, and now in my older years.....slow dancing with my man, I must confess, dancing to old country songs, we may have done a little "freakin".....:)
Wasn't there a movie about something like this several years ago? Footloose?
The people who show up on these threads to claim that "nothing has changed" and that this is no different than the way people reacted to Elvis in the 1950's need to read your post.
Exactly. Why is this sleaze tolerated? Just about everything winds up getting reduced to the lowest common denominator, and it's disgusting. There are many more wholesome dances which originate in Latin America. If they want to be "multicultural", learn 'em!
It's this damned new rock & roll music the kids are listening to! I said all along no good would come of it! :-)
What these parents need to realize is that there is point "A" and there is point "B". And there is the area in between. Those are boundaries that keep us civilized and keep us from becoming a society of deviants.
Since kids started gyrating with Elvis, things moved beyond point "A". Tolerable. It was slightly suggestive, but it was just movement. The "Bump" in the 70s was somewhere in the middle...after all, we were touching hips for milliseconds at at time. :)) A little personal, but innocent enough.
But these kids have taken it past point "B". Out of bounds. Anything outside of an extreme is dangerous and harmful. This is no exception.
Suggestive behavior and dancing is one thing. Two children actually simulating the act of sex in public, with nothing but clothing between them, is another.
Geez, I thought they said FReepers!
Yea! They will put a stop to this!
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These kids are freaking nuts!
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Another image I have from that same dance that was just as disturbing.
The dance was held in the cafeteria, and there were support poles throughout the room.
These young girls...6th - 8th graders, were pole dancing on the poles. This one child had her leg hiked up against the pole, and was rubbing her crotch against the pole. And don't you know that she was very indignant about being told to stop. She just couldn't seem to understand what was wrong with what she was doing.
That's what is so frightening. Some of these children have been so desensitized to sex, that they not only think it's their right at age 11 to display sexual behavior...they think nothing about displaying sexual behavior in public. For them, there is no correlation between sexual activity and privacy. Which is sad and very disturbing.
Because other kids are exposed to the same society and DO understand that correlation, it's obvious that parental guidance is imperative. And too many kids either get none..or they get the wrong guidance.
The schools dropping dances over it will. I would support my school if they decided to end them. Unless the parents tell their kids how to act, we shouldn't expect otherwise. My son knows better than this.
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The problem is (and always was) that as soon as the envelope was pushed via what Elvis was doing (which seems pretty mild these days) that the end result would be what we see today.
People can call me a prude if they want to, but these things happen in degrees.
Sad and appalling. Sex is a private matter, and our culture has made it public and commercial. When you get right down to it, our kids have been sold for a few bucks.
susie
I'm with you there.
And then sending personal letters to the parents of kids who were out-of-bounds, telling them that their children aren't welcome at any more school dances?
Part of the problem is that these kids all have TV's in their rooms with cable. The kind of garbage that's on TV ... on kids' channels at night is just astounding. And don't even get me started on MTV.
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