[NYDailyNews] Little girls' provocative dance routine to 'Single Ladies

[Jun]

This..this is plainly disgusting in my view.....

They danced their hearts out to win a national competition. But the five scantily dressed little girls expertly gyrating and grinding to Beyonce's "Single Ladies" at the World of Dance competition somehow didn't emerge as champs, but as an example of how parents can unwittingly encourage inappropriate behavior and perhaps a too-short childhood.

http://www.nydailynews.com/lifestyle/2010/05/14/2010-05-14_little_girls_provocative_dance_routine_to_single_ladies_sparks_fears_of_growing_.html
Rest of the article^

And this is the youtube video (a repost..as the original was taken down)...however I don't want to embed it..so I'm breaking the link..
http://www.youtube.com/ watch?v=GLlUCbQ-X5s

[Kov]

Next time someone says anything about games being a bad influence on children I will show them this article.

And show them that it's the parents who're the bad influence.

[Captn' Red]

This is what's fucking wrong about todays society.
Girls grow up with the main goal in life to be fashion bloggers or reality TV "stars".

Let kids be kids for fuck sake.

[0235]

holy shit! i didnt even need to read that article, just look at the pictures, what the fuck were the parents thinking!!! its like Donnie darko!
but i was watching a program on the BBC called "star suckers" its all about this, how fame is even more adictive and bad for our health than people thought, check it out.

oh, and Kov, i know what you mean, there was a News article about how music videos, famous people, and computer games are affecting our children, and they only said "computer games" once in the whole 20 min broadcast, and that was at the begining, didnt even say it again in the programme.

[Shuji]

The parents need to be responsible.  These kids don't know any better.

[Flyvåpnet]

Corporate mainstream media of communication created a similar brouhaha in the aftermath of JonBenét Ramsey's death in 1996, quite apart from the still-unsolved murder case.  JonBenét's participation in child beauty pageants was depicted by the aforementioned media of communication as evidence of parental abuse and/or neglect.  Was it?  I don't know.  Nor am I convinced that's the case here.

Pirates of old were (like pirates today) murderers and thieves, yet it's considered perfectly all right for little kids to dress as "pirates" on Hallowe'en.  Is their childhood, then, being taken from them?  I doubt it.  Sexuality, as interpreted by middle-class adults along with their governments and religions, remains the least understood and most feared aspect of human nature.  Why is this - in a world filled with famine, pestilence and war?



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[NarutakiTwinsRule]

It's articles and situations like these that make me understand what Frankenstein was about.

(the book).

[Zanibas]

   The only reason why we're allowed to dress up as pirates casually is because the image of pirates has evolved from an image of the greedy to a more romanticized and legendary sort. When we see a child dressed as a pirate, we aren't reminded of the bloody ship battles of yonder, but instead of the more contemporary version, such as Pirates of the Carribean.

   Why the same doesn't apply to a sexed up costume for kids is because we're still on the image of dressing scantily = whore, instead of some romanticized version of dressing slutty. Until the media changes society's perspective on kids dressing only 40% of their body, people are going to be disgusted at what that dress symbolizes, and all them pedos who find that attractive.

   Add onto the fact that when people dress like pirates, they aren't likely going to sign up to be swashbucklers. However, dressing scantily just might end up somewhere else.

   But for the record, I hope that day doesn't come. Honestly.

[Flyvåpnet]

I've never been one to think the essence of an individual's persona can be literally determined via their mode of dress, so in my mind it doesn't follow that a young female who wears "revealing" clothing aspires to become a prostitute.  Mine is obviously a minority view, otherwise corporate mainstream media of communication - in addition to power elites' governments and religions - wouldn't bother continuously insisting one's worth as a person is demonstrated through such a superficiality.



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[Zanibas]

I became confused a bit at the wording, but are you suggesting that looks cannot be used to determine who a person is? Yes, its true that looks are deceiving at times, but overall, tis a good indicator of certain qualities that person has. If one sees a girl in a long dress with a quiet aura, sure she might have the possibility of being a party animal who loves to be talkative, but for the most part, we assume she's a reserved person.

Sorry if I'm siding with the power elites' governments and religions, but I think the effectiveness of physical stereotypes is enough to form partial interpretation of a persona, with exceptions to the rule of course.

But then again, as I said, confusing wording is confusing, so I may have misunderstood what you're saying ^^.

[Captn' Red]

So pretty much Zanny: You think women who doesn't wear burka are sluts.

We have a obligation to shield our children from our fucked up world, at least until they are old enough to see it for what it actually is.

[Shuji]

Yes. Children need to shielded.  The world is changing... unacceptable activities are becoming acceptable...

What is to happen to all our values and morals are to be tossed out the window?


Oh brave new world, That has such people in it.

[0235]

like i said, children are being influenced at an extreamly young age, not yesterday did i see a "my first laptop ages 4+", a REAL £250 laptop!

[Flyvåpnet]

HERE YOU GO!



Barbie™ B-Smart™ Learning Laptop w/ Set of 3 Expansion Cards (BG6809_EC68) :Barbie: Youth: Oregon Scientific



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[Captn' Red]

Nothing wrong with introducing em to technology at an early age.

My kid(s) will learn the multiplication table before first grade.


...Should keep their internet activity on tight control though, I will be such a psycho dad when it comes to the internet..

Anyhow, fucking gender roles is something that pisses me off.
Just look at that pink shit.

If my daughter wanna play football, and my son wanna play with dolls, I sure as hell would let em.
If anyone buys a kitchen set for my daughter for Christmas I'm going to beat em up.