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

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote: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.

That is entirely unsupported by evidence, PP. Twerking came to the fore in the 90s in New Orleans in the African diaspora communities, and it was DIRECTLY linked to sexual signaling, since some of it was pushed out from brothels and assimilated businesses. There is no direct link to any specific dance or specific African culture from actual Africa, but the New Orleans diaspora it originated from generally speaks Bantu, a group of languages spoken across multiple central and southern African countries.

Ergo: yes, it is a sexualized dance originally. And please do not confuse diaspora artistic creations with country-of-origin artistic creations (regardless of which ethnicity and region of the world you're considering). Some diasporas are so ancient and/or so dynamic, that they've spawned their own specific cultural nodes.

Me again. I want to add that the mere fact it's "sexual" doesn't make it bad. Just maybe not appropriate for little kids. Most rites of ancient civilizations that have survived through the centuries, or for which we have depictions on tablets or other materials... were fertility rites. Japan still has a festival with phallic symbols every spring.

[Anonymous]

It's all the YouTube crap they're watching.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Please. The parents are sexualizing their little girls, not the hapless onlookers. The pedos love watching little girls and little boys do these kinds of perverted behavior because then it means that they are not to blame. After all, this behavior can be easily interpreted as - 'the kids are asking for it'.

[Anonymous]

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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?

Yes. Twerking is gross, as is much of modern sexualized TikTok dancing. It’s a gateway to being a slut, like their mothers likely are.

And rock music and dancing were considered the same 60 years ago.

+1
Elvis Presley was only shown from the waist up on the Ed Sullivan show.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I teach kindergarten and have students twerk. They copy whatever they see on TikTok, IG, YouTube, etc. Sone of them come to school wearing very inappropriate clothing too. They have fake nails. So many of the girls seek validation that they look good. “Aren’t my nails beautiful?” It’s sad.

What is inappropriate about fake nails? They’re cute, fun, and make the kids feel great.

My kid could care less about nails, as they get in her way. One of her slightly older friends has a mom who was an aesthetician and she always has the cutest nails. My kid, on the flip side, loves to color her hair. So I won’t bleach it because I don’t want to damage it, but I don’t care about whatever color she wants to do it in. This is her time to figure who she is out and none of it does her or anyone else any harm. I also don’t police her clothes. She’s kind of partial to the Billie Eilish big baggy look, but as long as it’s clean, in good repair, appropriate to season as far as her not being cold or overheating, and it’s not a special event that requires a certain costume, why do I need to tell her what makes her happy and comfortable in her skin?

For one, they can’t write with them. Two, they are a huge distraction. Third, they aren’t safe. One girl poked another one in the eye when she was fooling around.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the world is not brought up with refined values and behavior expectations.

A lot of the kids you think you're raising with your "refined values and behavior expectations" are doing this same exact ish the moment they're out of your sight (read: control).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

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?

Yes. Twerking is gross, as is much of modern sexualized TikTok dancing. It’s a gateway to being a slut, like their mothers likely are.

And yet, so many men with this same mentality will whinge and whine about how their wives don't put out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I teach kindergarten and have students twerk. They copy whatever they see on TikTok, IG, YouTube, etc. Sone of them come to school wearing very inappropriate clothing too. They have fake nails. So many of the girls seek validation that they look good. “Aren’t my nails beautiful?” It’s sad.

What is inappropriate about fake nails? They’re cute, fun, and make the kids feel great.

My kid could care less about nails, as they get in her way. One of her slightly older friends has a mom who was an aesthetician and she always has the cutest nails. My kid, on the flip side, loves to color her hair. So I won’t bleach it because I don’t want to damage it, but I don’t care about whatever color she wants to do it in. This is her time to figure who she is out and none of it does her or anyone else any harm. I also don’t police her clothes. She’s kind of partial to the Billie Eilish big baggy look, but as long as it’s clean, in good repair, appropriate to season as far as her not being cold or overheating, and it’s not a special event that requires a certain costume, why do I need to tell her what makes her happy and comfortable in her skin?

For one, they can’t write with them. Two, they are a huge distraction. Third, they aren’t safe. One girl poked another one in the eye when she was fooling around.

Again, my kid doesn’t wear them but I’m giving you a huge eye roll. The “aren’t safe” is because they’re goofing around and not the nails. How are they distracting? To you? To the kids? All the kids I know wear cute nails that should impede anything. You may have a valid point over the writing but then that’s a problem that needs to be addressed as an educational one. The other two are silly. You’re looking for reasons to jude and complain. This is a pretty harmless way for kids to express themselves.

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Anonymous wrote:It's vulgar, but the kids don't understand the sexual connotations, and the parents are lax and allow it.

What are you going to do? Change the mindset of millions of families? This is today's world, OP.

This. Kids imitate and say things without knowing the meanings. Some might be ahead of their years in knowledge, but many are simply innocent of it.

"Twerking" is just a simulated sexual movement of the "woman-on-top" using her hips to do the guy. The female version of a guy "thrusting" into the air, like "Duff Man" on the Simpsons would do.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's vulgar, but the kids don't understand the sexual connotations, and the parents are lax and allow it.

What are you going to do? Change the mindset of millions of families? This is today's world, OP.

Do you understand the sexual connotations? Can you explain that? Do you feel the same about belly dancing? Line dancing? Salsa? Bachata?

[Anonymous]

ITT people who think dancing hasn't been natural and sexual for thousands of years.

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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.

It is sexualization of younger and younger kids. And obviously that is highly problematic; only a weirdo would disagree.

What’s next? Toddler-thongs?

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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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Obviously, a$$holes.

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If it helps, it’s actually really great for their back!

[Anonymous]

“Twerking” isn’t taboo anymore OP it’s common on kids YouTube character dances, cartoons, comics now