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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For those who don’t wish to or can’t watch the clip that was posted, let me describe it as non-explicitly as possible. Girls that appear to be 12 or 13 years old are wearing skin tight booty shorts that fully expose the shape of their private parts. They gyrate around and twerk both in the air on the floor. They rub their hands over their private parts multiple times and smack their own butts. They gyrate over their dance partners who also slap each other’s butts to music singing “do you want it”. They turn their backsides to the audience and bend over into a doggy position and run their hands between their crotches and thighs.

Someone explain to me again what part of this has to do with being black?[/quote]

Haven’t watched the clip, but I’ll play.

I don’t think of what you described as “black.”

I do however think of it as urban/pop culture dancing related to certain musical genres. Have you ever seen a rap video?

You don’t see the same dancing in country music videos.

Both Beyoncé and Brittany were sexualized by their parents and managers. Miley Cyrus seems incapable of keeping her clothes on. Lizzo and Cardi B like to dress skimpily and twerk. Latinas do it, too (JLo, Shakira).

It’s a music and dancing thing. And, black artists tend to be more successful and popular, so it’s heavily connected to them. [/quote]

I watched it and thought it was a well done film. If you watch the movie, it is definitely not a "black thing". One of those girls everyone here is calling white is Latina and all of the music they are dancing to is reggaeton. The girls watch these reggaeton videos and then mimic the dance moves. They practice for a competition and perform this highly sexualized dance at the end and it is VERY clear the audience members are really uncomfortable with it. The protagonist, Amy, who was at first shy and curious about these bawdier girls and manages to work her way into this "cool" group and teaches herself to dance, has a crisis of confidence on stage and realizes that in rebelling she may have gone too far. The whole film is about female adolescence and the testing of boundaries, coupled with the cultural aspect of all (? there is one white girl where it is unclear) being immigrants trying to figure out where they fit into their new country. The dancing makes sense in context and isn't really titillating unless you are already inclined to be turned on by 11-13 year olds. [/quote]

You forgot the crotch shot videos they post to social media scene. You couldn’t miss it in the movie, a loud song came on and lots of sucking fingers, twerking and sexy faces. Amy was the star. [/quote]

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