I just had a group of 7/8 year olds girls twerk in front of me

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Anonymous wrote:Who is teaching them this? I went out eat at a pizza place and there was a group of girls softball players eating out with their coach and parents presumably after a game. We all ended up leaving at the same time and as I was pulling out of the parking lot 5 of the girls got in front of my car and began twerking and showing off their behinds laughing. Parent said nothing but laughed. Who is parenting these kid?!

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Anonymous wrote:You should be glad they weren't smoking pot these days.

I was waiting outside a Starbucks and I heard a mom with too kids exclaim: “smells like pot. Mommy loves pot”. I wouldn’t be surprised if the kids are given how nonchalant this woman was.

Oh please, the mother probably died inside. My kids are older now, thank goodness, but I can totally see myself saying something when explaining the pot smell- like yes it smells like skunk, it smells terrible. In college I smelled it once (true story) and it smelled nice but now it is not nice. I can see a four year old translating that to "mommy loves pot" and I would die!

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This is why my 7 year old can listen to Taylor Swift but not watch the accompanying music videos. I assure you most of her friends watch the videos.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see why this is a big deal. My only concern is that they were in a parking lot, which seems unsafe. They were dancing, for heaven’s sake.

Dancing like strippers. I see why op was concerned.

Oh stop. Have you ever even seen a stripper? Kids don’t dance like them at all. Kids wiggle their butts back and forth because they think butts are funny.

It’s a natural human move to dance by wiggling back and forth. Don’t you ever just put music on and shake it a little? Or do you do an Irish jig when you feel like dancing?

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Don’t read anything into it. They’re kids goofing off. That’s it. Roll your eyes and move on.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t see why this is a big deal. My only concern is that they were in a parking lot, which seems unsafe. They were dancing, for heaven’s sake.

Dancing like strippers. I see why op was concerned.

Oh stop. Have you ever even seen a stripper? Kids don’t dance like them at all. Kids wiggle their butts back and forth because they think butts are funny.

It’s a natural human move to dance by wiggling back and forth. Don’t you ever just put music on and shake it a little? Or do you do an Irish jig when you feel like dancing?

This. I mean, I didn't see it, but I wonder if OP is overreacting.

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Just kids being silly. They don't even understand how you are viewing it.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t read anything into it. They’re kids goofing off. That’s it. Roll your eyes and move on.

This. I mean my sister and I used to belt the prostitute song from Les Mis to be funny. Kids being silly and pushing boundaries is nothing new.

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Twerking is a dance form that originated in central Africa and kept alive by slaves to keep connection to their culture, even used as a form of rebellion.

It’s uptight weirdos and perverted men who turn it into something sexual. It’s perfectly fine for people to move their pelvis to dance, and it someone wants to project their ideas of sex onto it, that’s their problem.

You’re sexualizing little girls. You’re the problem. I’m guessing you don’t tell little boys they need to avoid doing certain things, because you don’t see the male body as inherently sexual like you do the female body.

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Anonymous wrote:Who is teaching them this? I went out eat at a pizza place and there was a group of girls softball players eating out with their coach and parents presumably after a game. We all ended up leaving at the same time and as I was pulling out of the parking lot 5 of the girls got in front of my car and began twerking and showing off their behinds laughing. Parent said nothing but laughed. Who is parenting these kid?!

In my case, I taught my DDs. I like twerking and they’ve picked it up from me. They’re still young so they don’t have the motor control to do it well but it’s fun for them.

I was a professional dancer so to me it’s just another dance move. No big deal.

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Girls dancing in public? The horror.

Unclench, memaw.

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Gross. My 9 year old boy doesn’t do that. He doesn’t have an iPad or cell phone and only watches cartoons. It doesn’t “have” to be this way.

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Anonymous wrote:Don’t read anything into it. They’re kids goofing off. That’s it. Roll your eyes and move on.

+1. I would have laughed but I have a sense of humor.

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Anonymous wrote:Gross. My 9 year old boy doesn’t do that. He doesn’t have an iPad or cell phone and only watches cartoons. It doesn’t “have” to be this way.

Little girls doing dances that are relevant for their time is gross? And somehow it’s meaningful that your boy does not do the same dances as the little girls?

Is twerking (or whatever variation they managed) some sort of gateway to….what? Better dancing? Fun memories with friends?

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Anonymous wrote:Who is teaching them this? I went out eat at a pizza place and there was a group of girls softball players eating out with their coach and parents presumably after a game. We all ended up leaving at the same time and as I was pulling out of the parking lot 5 of the girls got in front of my car and began twerking and showing off their behinds laughing. Parent said nothing but laughed. Who is parenting these kid?!

Liberals.