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This new viral video shows some young ladies getting their groove on during half-time at a high school game. Seems pretty typical to me, but this little dance led to the disbandment of the group, national news attention and the branding of these perhaps unthinking (yet not unusual) women as "The Sluts of Jonesboro" -- in honor of the high school where they used to be on the now-defunct dance team. I am more upset that innocent if misinformed young women have been labeled sluts for doing a dance, than at the dance itself. But I turn it over to the community:
What do you think of these young women and their dancing? Are they to blame for their actions, are their parents, or is the school administration? Is it really that big of a deal at all? I say no. What say you?
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By: poormeattitude on 1/29/2009 4:47PM
Lap dancing for a career out of high school. Just what Girls with low self esteem should do. I would kick my daughter's ass if she did this. It was disgraceful. Slutty behavior at it's best.
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By: charles on 1/29/2009 5:29PM
ah hell I've seen worse at least they were in sync. they work at this routine and it seems they worked awfully hard I don't feel this makes them sluts. we seem to worry about the wrong things these days. The schools are short of text books, teachers are getting layed off and the focus is on how some girls are dancing .come on people lets get our priorities in order.
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By: Black Australian on 1/29/2009 6:37PM
I think its pretty poor form to label & blame these young women. It was fairly tame really, they were almost fully covered up. The video showed nothing worse than the average music video. Bit late to be crying about "slutty" dancing, when the last ten years (& before that really) has seen an over-sexualisation of women. "Embrace-your-inner-slut" seems to be the mantra of our society. You could argue that these young women are simply reflecting or even taking ownership of something that's pretty much forced on them. Some "inner-sluts" I can think of off the top of my head - Bratz dolls, Madonna, Janet Jackson, Beyonce (in some of her video clips she matches it!), Britney etc etc
I have an 8yr daughter (as well as three boys) and its hard trying to control the images they see that seem to cement the roles of men as dominators & women as sexual beings.
Sex sells.
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By: WENDY on 1/29/2009 7:01PM
Listen, there is a time and place for everything. Clearly this is the wrong time and the wrong place to perform such a dance. Draw the line somewhere and take pride in yourself. Keep lap-dances, pole-swingers and wannabe's where they should be--in the strip clubs and not in the sport arenas where young mines are impressionable.
Ladies, learn to live with your legs closed and your mind open to learn. You do yourself a disservice when you promote yourself as hoochies with rhythm. Keep in mind, youth is fleeting and the shape you have today will vanish soon after college, so don't use your bodies to get ahead, use your HEAD to get ahead!
I'm sure many of those dancers have "potential," but for what, exactly?
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By: "DimePiece" on 1/29/2009 8:06PM
"INNAPROPRIATE", "DISGUISTING", and "DEGRADING"!!!!!! I was waiting for somebody to throw some $$$$ on the court? The parents of these students probably don't give a DAMN!!!!!
You know what the SCHOOL is RESPONSIBLE and all of the PARENTS of the students are too!!!!!!!
WHY, WHY, WHY,!!!!!! Girating, Grinding, Poppin their behinds, Stripper Dancing, and you might as well say LAP DANCING with those chairs and the young men sitting in them!!!!!! I was waiting for the lights to get dim, I mean what the F****!!!! WHAT A DISCGRACE!!! You find kids doing this of ALL RACE!
Kids these days are so damn bold and grown it's PATHETIC!!!!! Watching TOO MANY DAMN VIDEOS, and
PROBABLY some do strange things for $$$$!!! If that was my daughter and I just found out, that would be the last dance that she would SHAKE AZZ for her ENTIRE LIFE!!!! It's a damn shame because I see it where I live, little children I mean 5 yrs old shakin and doing things inappropriately and signing inappropriate lyrics and the parents find it CUTE! This needs to STOP! Look, the TITLE of what these girls are called is APPROPRIATE!!!!!!!!
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By: "DimePiece" on 1/29/2009 8:15PM
Hey Charles #2,
You said, "The schools are short of text books, teachers are getting layed off and the focus is on how some girls are dancing .come on people lets get our priorities in order"
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If that is the case, WE AS PARENTS, TEACHERS, OUR COMMUNITY, need to DO MORE ADN LET OUT VOICES BE HEARD and TAKE SOME ACTION!!!! WE ALL HAVE TO DO OUR PART!!!! This is about OUR CHILDREN OF OUR FUTURE!!!!!!! If we don't start at home, our children will be uneducated, going down the WRONG PATH, doing drugs, alcohol, be in prison, and their lives can lead to DEATH!!!!!!
THAT'S REALITY!!!!!!
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By: "DimePIece" on 1/29/2009 8:21PM
Hey Charles #2,
You said, "The schools are short of text books, teachers are getting layed off and the focus is on how some girls are dancing .come on people lets get our priorities in order"
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If that is the case, WE AS PARENTS, TEACHERS, OUR COMMUNITY, need to DO MORE ADN LET OUT VOICES BE HEARD and TAKE SOME ACTION!!!! We as parents should MONITER our children's much better and their friends, and take more control in what they watch on TV, INTERNET, and what music they listen too!!!! PREDITORS are ENJOYING THIS GIRLZ SHAKE THEIR AZZ!!! This is about OUR CHILDREN OF OUR FUTURE!!!!!!! If we don't start at home, our children will be uneducated, going down the WRONG PATH, doing drugs, alcohol, be in prison, and their lives can lead to DEATH!!!!!!
THAT'S REALITY!!!!!!
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By: affrodite on 1/29/2009 10:56PM
It was in poor taste. Did the girls have an adult that was their choreographer? If so, then the finger pointing needs to go straight that adult.
Some tough life lessons learned in front of the world thanks to the internet.
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By: Tracy on 1/30/2009 12:23AM
The dance could have been worst...But it was bad enough. In today's society we are beginning to expect so much more from our young women in respect to class and culture...And that dance routine doesn't measure up... sorry
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By: "DimePiece" on 1/30/2009 7:50AM
This really disgusts and scares me. I was looking on You Tube for Beyonce's old song "Give me Bodied" I say, 7 or 8 yr old girl had a Birthday Party and was dancing in front of everybody at a hall. The little girl was doing some PROVOCATIVE and INNAPROPRIPRIATE dancing on the floor. Her family and friends were cheering her on? HOW SCARY to have this little girl's VIDEO on YOU TUBE, with SICK PREDITORS WATCHING. WHAT HAS THIS WORLD COME TOO? HOW SAD, children and young teens who their role models are, what they see on videos, on the Internet, and think that it's CUTE and ACCEPTABLE? A dance can turn into something else and it's too late! BOTTOM LINE, IT'S THE PARENTS FAULT and BLAME!!!!!!!!
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