I've chaperoned a few of my nephews dances (he is 17) and they don't do anything like this at school-sponsored dances. If they did dance like this and teachers were involved (for fair comparison), then you bet that some kind of legal action would probably go down. I don't think we should go shutting these dances down though, most I know of are properly chaperoned.
I think it would depend on what was going on at the high school dances. Honestly, at the school sanctioned ones I went to I never saw more than the white man's shuffle. But it would have gotten any teacher fired to get out on the dance floor unless it was only with another adult (generally their spouse). The point of the chaparones are that this sort of thing doesn't happen on school grounds. Too many lawyers amoung the parents...
<br> Look, I wasn't in high school too long ago. I grinded in High School. I grinded in middle school. However, it was technically "not allowed". Of course, we still did it though. The difference is, the school's personnel try to discourage such things. These adults openly encouraged those kids to do that. At one point in the vid, when a few of the children stop dancing, that lady gets up and puts the girl in front of a boy. There's also a huge difference between teenagers and kids 11 and under (which all the ones in the video seem to be) And I though you were kidding because not many older people, especially parents would ever consider it fine for it to be promoted for their kids to engage in such behavior
OK... I never said that it was OK or that I approved of this... I am just trying to get to the bottom of what could stand as "inappropriate behavior" and to be stopped by LAWs. These kids were dancing, their were parents there, and we all know we wouldn't let our kids do that, period. Now, as far as what they were doing... was it actually a sexual behavior? They could argue that it was just dancing, and that it was just playing... like... I don't know... some weird step... but the point I wanted to make is that... dude, there's from country to country and cultural things we are outraged by in the 'States and in other countries, there might not be. I am guessing it was somewhere in the Caribbean like the Dominican Republic or Cuba, but... it still looks bad whether it was a cultural thing or it wasn't. Until WHAT point, though, is a dance just a dance, and a sexual act NOT a dance? Yeah, there's a gray area there. We watch "dancing with the stars" and "so you think you can dance" and they have lewd sex acts, and we think they're o.k. ... or we look at Beyoncé shaking her booty and we think 'that is awesome!'... and we let our kids listen to Soulja Boy talking about a 'ho' this or "lih-lih lih-lih lih-lih like a lollipop" and that's OK, too? Stand up against THOSE SONGS, VIDEOS, SHOWS, too.
I've seen the two dance shows, never heard Beyonce or Soulja Boy (I know, I live in a cave but I like it here). As for the two dance shows, I have NEVER seen them do anything inappropriate involving minors. And I think the fact that we are talking about minors is the point. I do let my daughters watch the dance shows but I haven't seen them ever show anything like that. The tango? Waltz? So you think you can dance is more athletic than anything. Especially since one of them is pretty good at copying dance moves and she's only four.
Yeah because those shows, videos, artists, etc. all included minors participating in those types of moves, sometimes with adults. Come on man...
Swoly finds a grey area over children bumping and grinding, yet made an uproar over people dancing at their own wedding ceremony. Swoly, somehow you surprise me again and again! Not really related, but I did volunteer work back in high school assisting in an after school program for ~12 year olds. Before the teacher came in, the kids were playing around. And by playing around, I mean running around and grabbing each other's crotches HARD (boys to girls and vice versa). My friend and I looked at each other with a total WTF look on our faces. It was like the twilight zone or something. Anyways I couldn't watch more than 20 seconds of this, too cringe-inducing.
SwoLy just likes to play devil's advocate for the heck of it. If SwoLy walked into his little girls' classrooms to find them participating in dancing like that, I'm pretty sure he'd be upset about it.
I didn't look into it, but... Where is this taking place? I'm guessing there's a population/AIDS problem wherever it is. Sheesh.
^^ HEY HEY HEY! That's how we MAKE babies... named Jebus, sir. It's a cultural thing. The keyword in Mrs. Valdez' comment was "in the states." Don't lie, man. You have all his CDs.
